Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third race. Lolloping comfortably in the shallow water of the inlet, a porpoise received an appalling thump. It came from the bow of Ellsworth's boat, this time ahead of the others and traveling at nearly 60 m.p.h. The boat leaped into, the air and an official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...
...bench, whispered hastily in his ear. "Oh yes," said the judge, facing the jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff let the jurors out. The foreman unfisted a moist crumpled note, handed it to the clerk. A thin smile faded from Patterson's lips as the clerk read his third death sentence...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bestowing Radio City on his father as a birthday present. In a tremulous rage, the elder Rockefeller takes after his son with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University and for it Son John pays some $3,000,000 annually...
Evanston, Ill., famed for Charles Gales Dawes and Northwestern University, last week got into the nation's news as the battleground of an organization called the Paul Reveres. Founded four months ago in Glencoe, Ill., a smaller Chicago suburb seven miles north of Evanston, the Paul Reveres tub-thump against Communism and "subversive activities." Planning a nation-wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target...
...came down with a thump when I saw TIME. My picture reproduced well (TIME, Dec. 12). The subject and even his rubber roller were mentioned, so was the photographer of my painting. The artist himself was thrust out of TIME and space...