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Word: thumpings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighters. He broke the ice with a thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Long Ago & Far Away | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...answering the thrusts of unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Stop-Gap | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Thump! Thump! and Thump!?the King of Arms knocked on the door of Henry VII's Chapel, musty and magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Connaught to Westminster | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...professor adjusted his glasses, cleared his throat, and, without speaking, began to thump through the pages. In a moment he looked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

...grand French finale, after the flogging, the "executioner" pulls the lever of the guillotine. The blade is so arranged that it stops with a gruesome thump just short of the flogged poule's neck, but excited tourists are found to relish the sadistic idea that it might fall all the way. Female spectators invariably scream. To prove that she has actually been flogged, the poule invites attention to the welts on her thrashed posterior, solicits tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Guillotine to Ignominy? | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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