Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pilot & Meteor. Last spring a TWA pilot over Texas had the thrill of observing a meteor in flight (TIME, April 3). Last week, also over Texas, an American Airways pilot had the even greater thrill of dodging a meteor. He was approaching Texarkana, said Pilot Hiram Sheridan, when a dazzling blue-white light attracted his attention. "I watched it for a minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could...
...inadequate patronage distribution. Large blocks of Democrats in the Senate bridled at the President's St. Lawrence waterway proposal (see p. 15). And though no one talked seriously of his losing control of his huge majority, there were two rounds which gave the President last week the political thrill he loves...
Sirs: There was a young man named Hill; Who at betting acquired a thrill, 'Till he found that he may-when wrong- have to pay, Thanks to TIME & Subscribers-the bill...
This editorial expression is not an attack upon the men who compose the varsity squad. We realize fully what a thrill it is to them to be singled out as gridiron representatives of the East. The men themselves are as clean a group of players and gentlemen as any college can boast about. But it is not a question of personalities so much as it is a question of principle...
...solemn, nearsighted little German with a genius for laboratory detection made an international sensation by announcing that he had isolated the thin, curved bacillus which causes tuberculosis. Eight years later he sent another thrill around the world by telling about a substance, tuberculin, which he thought would destroy the bacillus, cure its human victims. But black days were ahead. Despite the other bacteriological triumphs of this onetime country doctor, it saddened the rest of Robert Koch's life when his tuberculin not only failed to cure consumptives but killed a good many of them in the attempt...