Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ensued a terrific struggle. Finally Detective Holden wrested the knife from the old man's hand, threw him panting into the front seat. Tenderly he bound the spitz's neck with his own bandana. Then off he raced again...
That is the neutron. It lacks electrical characteristics. The charges of proton and electron have bound and balanced each other. A particle has been formed halfway between nascent electricity and atomic hydrogen. It hops out of radioactive substances as do alpha particles...
Queer places, queer people cross their path. There is the waggoner who told of a man with an old and ugly wife. When he discovered another man with her he did not shoot, or even shout. "He only said that he was bound by law to sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend...
...just such a contingency as has new arisen. With conditions as they now are here and abroad an economic boycott is of course not especially welcome. However, Japan has broken the Covenant of the League and if that body is to keep any authority at all it is bound to enforcement. Our position frees us from this duty. That this country should from sheer altruism jeopardize its financial recovery and perhaps undo the good that has come from the recent economic measures passed by Congress is most questionable...
...editorial policy of these papers seems to be bound in rigid provincialism, with an elaboration of current facts and details that merely report events, failing to challenge constructive thought. Editorial discussions refer to the ranking of clubs, liberalizing the curriculum and the normalcy of Phi Beta Kappa students, now and then pausing to this or that professor or this or that athletic team heartily between the shoulder blades...