Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liquidations, said Director Douglas, "the national debt in the fiscal year 1934 will be substantially increased."* The amount of the increase Director Douglas was unable to predict because of "certain still undefined policies of the Government." Though he did not say so, this meant that U. S. citizens would wake up July 1, 1934 to find a fourth successive Treasury deficit behind them...
...naval torpedo is a little submarine, driven by compressed air and steered by a gyroscopic brain. The brain can only keep the torpedo on its course, cannot swerve it to strike a ship whose captain has seen the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new type of "human torpedo...
Sudden approach of many close football games leaves poor prognosticator panting in wake like Big Bad Wolf that tried to blow down Little Pig's house. Like Wolf color finally turns to purple as poor, panting prognosticator contemplates Holy Cross. Ignorant people say Holy Cross will Reiss to the occasion and Crusader's Notre Dame system will lead them out of the Woods, but greater knowledge reveals their attack will be Britt-le. Harvard will run round Purple ends till Sheehands outpoints with final score 20-13 for Crimson...
...that Gar's eleven-year supremacy was about to end that they had the trophy brought down to the judges' stand prior to the second heat. A few moments later Don disqualified himself by beating the gun more than five seconds, and immediately after capsized in the wake of Miss America...
...highways, rolled abandoned automobiles over & over like dice. The hurricane roared up the Rio Grande Valley snuffing out power stations, snapping electric wires, twisting houses, fences, highways and towns into jumbles of ruin. Then it raced across the Rio Grande, dissipated itself in the wastelands of Mexico. In its wake were 22 dead, 1,500 injured...