Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Open terrorist methods have been used by the mill-owners in Passaic. New Jersey, in an attempt to crush the textile strikers," stated Albort Weisbord, noted Communist and labor agitator yesterday in the course of his speech at the Liberal Club...
...does it look for tomorrow, Joe?" he asked with apparent nonchalance, but I could see his besom heave and re-heave as he waited. I couldn't bear to crush him with anything definite, so I just said. "Well, Jess, it will; take three touchdowns to win, and you know what three touchdowns...
...opening of the class football season on Solider's Field yesterday saw a powerful Junior eleven crush a game but outclassed Senior team by a score of 22 to 0. Shortly after the opening kick-off. Heard, 1928 quarterback, ran back a punt 30 yards to, the Senior 20-yard mark, and half a dozen slashes through the line took the ball across the line, Barbee tallying on the last plunge. In the second and fourth quarters, sustained offenses yielded two touchdowns, and another drive bore fruit in the form of a field goal from the 20-yard streak...
Entrance Limitations. The crush at U. S. college gates had continued until even huge Harvard felt obliged to announce a policy of restricting her freshman classes (TIME, April...
Woods Raps. Scarcely had the delegates assembled-many of them slant-eyed poppy-landers - when hard-fisted Colonel Arthur Woods* hurled a policeman's challenge: "There may be too much diplomacy and too little roughshod direct police action in the fight against narcotic outlaws. . . . To crush the international narcotic traffic we must have international police action...