Word: zooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought one for his new yacht, the René) because the hardware and woodwork of each one is contrived to harmonize with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac, 13 are destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets. Many are shipped to Australia. The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways. Colombian explorers and the Ford rubber plantations in Brazil...
After all, who did kill Goliath? Elmer Davis, letting his imagination zoom, said in his novel Giant Killer that it was not David, but his sturdy nephew Joab. Stumbling on the huge carcass, David made bold to slice off the head and stagger back with it to camp, claiming a victory that...
...Zoom: To climb for a short time at an angle greater than that which can be maintained in steady flight, the airplane being carried upward at the expense of its kinetic energy...
...Couldn't Say No. Its chief virtue is that it returns Florence Moore to the legitimate stage. A 20th century, wisecracking Portia, she furiously "strains the milk of human kindness" to win the man she loves. With such dynamic energy does Miss Moore zoom through three acts of vaudeville farce that the entire encumbrance is drawn in by the suction and swept along to success. She impersonates a fictitious partner of the penniless lawyer she adores, wins a lawsuit for him in spite of himself, and wins him, too, after an impassioned speech set in the middle...
...Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom-louder and louder rumbled the big bass drum of Prosperity where they were beating it (TIME, Nov. 17) in Wall Street. The great bull days became a great bull week, the greatest in 20 years. In ten post-election days, 18,717,732 listed stock shares changed hands in the Big Bull Ring. Of these millions, over eleven and a half went in the week of Nov. 10, more than ever before save in the panicky May weeks of 1901. A total of 689 issues were dealt in-a new high for all time. Wall Street...