Word: askew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME sprinkled its salt askew. The President's vantage point was a special platform on the superstructure in front of No. 2 turret...
...quite unable to guide students from Oxford and Divinity Streets to their classes, for she had forgotten to record the hour last night, or at least had let it slip by too quickly. Twenty minutes fast all morning, she sent students and professors askew. Colonel Apted and his men were fortunately able to convince her of her folly later in the day and the Colonel feels he can prevent her from going wrong again...
...teeth was outfitted from Boston Dentists and set up as W. W. Ehlers & Co., Investment Brokers. It was his job, through a miraculous system of checks and drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife and children, and pick up the unhonored draft. By no means embarrassed, Baiata calmly called on Otto Van Derck for another $25,000 piece of "financing." That...
...technique had just lured his sparrow-brained stenographer in there with a bribe of lingerie, when suddenly all his fun is spoiled and his engagement ruined into the bargain. But Warren is not a man to be so easily defeated; he fairly drips with fine ideas, which unfortunately go askew until the very end when all is forgiven by all concerned; and then everyone trips merrily out to some delectable form of lechery and the play ends on a cheerful note...
...Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics pointed out the possibilities for cancer therapy. Instead of inserting costly radium capsules into malignant tumors, doctors may soon use substances made radioactive artificially...