Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net would be sprung. At once there would be a mass of fluttering, struggling pigeons, with heads protruding through the meshes. The fowler and his assistants would rush to the massacre, which was the crushing of the head of each individual bird between the thumb and forefinger...
...Crimson started off with a rush at the face-off. Everett took possession of the puck and after fighting his way through the University Club defense threw away his chance with a wide shot. A similar opportunity was lost shortly after. Toward the end of the period the University Club threatened when the forward line was twice grouped in front of the Harvard cage but Ellis was able to keep the puck from crossing the line. The work of the goalies of both teams was the feature of the period...
...last week's price maneuver was decidedly bullish for steel companies. Confident were steelmen that the law of supply & demand will not work in their case. Rather, they contended that many a prospective buyer of steel has awaited lower prices, now will see he cannot get them, will rush into the market. Thus they viewed their move as a step toward new business activity. Not for some time will the steelmen's reasoning be submitted to the actual test of orders received. Many a financial writer last week looked back at 1921-22 when the rise of iron...
Secretary of War Davis was fascinated by what he heard of the great deserts in New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. In 1853, stagecoach lines or the Pony Express had not yet followed the covered wagons of the Gold Rush. There were Indians in the desert lands, Indians whom the War Department must subdue. Secretary of War Davis took thought and sent some Army commissioners to Egypt. Object: to buy dromedaries...
...while chatting with a Norwegian lady one unwittingly refers to "the time when Norway was a part of Sweden," the chances are four out of five that hot tears of indignation will rush to her light blue eyes...