Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertising, lacked finesse but was effective. Its value lay in its being the "biggest thing on earth". Now when every vantage place is plastered with bill posters, when bill boards are lighted, the lights colored and flashing, each advertisement is lost in the glare and dazzle of the whole array. Every novelty in noise and color has been exploited, until the buyer's eyes and ears have been exhausted by the massed attack...
...book, and its serial predecessors in "The Baseball Nine Books," as a series of trenchant treatises on scholastic morality. The scrivener to whom the beginnings of the series are ascribed is Christy Mathewson. His titles read: Pitcher Pollock, Catcher Craig, First Base Faulkner, Second Base Sloan. The array leads one to anticipate Shortstop Sutphen, Left Fielder Lumley, Center Fielder Cathcart and Right Fielder Rabinowitz...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...
...Follette, a proven veteran of many a filibustering campaign, helped drive the balls into the come in his teaching days. The newcomers out of the West, Frasler, Shipstead, and Brookhart, together with the old Lochinvars, Borah, La Follette, and Norris, are few in number but present a formidable array...
...launching of a vast scheme to create a greater New York in the true sense of the word, a scheme planned and backed by Wall Street, to be carried out in cooperation with the East Side and the rest of the nine million citizens, throws a brilliant array of light into a gloomy outlook...