Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jack thought he might have had something last week. He did; he had morale, and that's about all that saved his train-tired team at West Point. Even Johnny Dorman wasn't up to his usual game at center halfback, and what thunder was to be stolen went to the money man Manheimer and a Sophomore threat, Theodore P. Robie...
...expected thunderbolt did not strike last Saturday. But there were certain rumblings which sounded very much like distant thunder. Probably some time will be required for perfecting but it certainly seems that Coach Harlow is entitled to a basic patent on his machine. At any rate, what he has done in his three short weeks calls for congratulations and hope. But at the first game of the season, the attitude of the spectators was so artistically phlegmatic that it is impossible to become vitriolic in denouncing it. As a dramatic achievement the unbroken calm of the grandstands surpasses anything...
...never lost her composure during her arrest, questioning, imprisonment, trial, or execution. When a bystander lifted her bloody head and slapped the face, a murmur of rage swept through the crowd. A summer storm that had roared over the scene suddenly passed, the skies grew light and the thunder & lightning ceased...
...have not time to pray," intoned the leader of a typical choral group. The mass response rolled back like thunder: "God will nevertheless understand us, for whoever consecrates his life to his nation will be honored by a blessed stand next to the Lord...
...this horrible climax, was "too tragic for any words," stopped writing, died. For European intellectuals the War meant more than the end of amiable illusions under which they had lived. The very problems that had occupied them- feminism, modern art, social progress- were made irrelevant and petty by the thunder of the conflict that raged off the intellectual stage...