Word: overwhelming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia's current tidal wave of treason charges, summary arrests and sudden death to even big Bolsheviks (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), surged up last week for the first time high enough to overwhelm even a president of a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...Yardlings took every match but one in straight sets to overwhelm the Assumption Jayvees...
...Simultaneously Whitehall buzzed with rumors that Army, Navy and Air Force experts were actually studying whether intervention by an expeditionary force to Spain may become "requisite." For centuries it has been London's basic policy that Britain must oppose whichever power on the Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen...
While members of the Editorial Board usually are able to sit down at the typewriter and invent a national or college issue about which to write, the usual candidate has his worst troubles in selecting a topic for discussion. The next two months, however, promise to overwhelm even the columnists with topics ready for comment...
...Committee with a brief for its Constitutionality and, according to Washington talk, flatly told the President that the measure would never get by the Supreme Court. When to these two bills are added the AAAmendments, and others, Washington saw in the making a deliberate policy by the President to overwhelm the Supreme Court with a mass of New Deal legislation of doubtful Constitutionality. If the Supreme Court is forced to throw most of it out next year on the eve of a Presidential campaign in a series of unpopular decisions, President Roosevelt will presumably go to the country...