Word: athwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision...
...worth was stewed in Soviet samovars last year. The few U. S. correspondents "on the spot" at Harbin and Mukden, last week, heard that Soviet planes were dropping occasional bombs along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier, 400 miles away, and also that six armored Russian trains were drawn up athwart the frontier city of Manchuli. When Chinese riflemen sniped at the Russian planes, a few pieces of Soviet field artillery were unlimbered and warning shells whined across the border, to fall (intentionally) into empty fields...
ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
...minutes later, the foremast was split to the deck and carried the foresail and headsail down with it. The boom fell athwart the cabin, crushing it in and while we had a narrow escape, nobody was injured. . . . The snapped masts floating in the water threatened to crash into our side as they were pounded along by the waves...
...Haven, Conn., Sept. 23 Mrs. Mary Sweazey, proud possessor of a three story brick building on High Street in this city, is literally sitting athwart the $12,000,000 expansion program of Yale University. Directly in the path of the growth of Yale University is her house, and nothing short of a court order seems likely to evict...