Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street Palace of Living Wonders. Before that he was a vender of snake oil and Indian cure; and his compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that Thompson's lowly feathers are plucked from the same bird that gave Cyrano his white plume and that...
...entirely of Boston or Cambridge graduates would not prove as effective as one whose membership included graduates from between the two coasts; men attaining the honor of Overseerships have Harvard's interests too close at heart to neglect her welfare or to ignore any one of her many compound parts. The reason for this move, and the objection to Mr. Wister's proposal lies in the significance of the Board and the part it plays in all phases of Harvard life. As the dominating group influence in the government of the University its roll should include men geographically representative; this...
...sold to the Du-Ponts in 1897. Then he produced "Maximite," an explosive that can be shot through armor-plate and exploded on the other side. Among his other inventions are: a high- velocity rifle shell capable of a speed of a mile a second; and "Motorite," an energetic compound to generate intense heat to make steam to propel a torpedo...
...interpreters translated as they pleased. These were introduced as evidence at a secret trial last week, and half the 40 prisoners were ordered strangled. They were not told which were to be strangled, which imprisoned or set free. They were simply herded into a compound a short distance from where Senator Bingham and War Lord Chang were drinking...
...Compound cathartic...