Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combination, with a six-length handicap, finished a half length ahead of the Second University boat, which led the Freshman by three lengths. The time of the Second crew was 10.44. The combination, with its initial advantage, broke fast and was never headed while the Second University rapidly cut down the lead and gave a great demonstration of power...
Three of the four Harvard hits were registered in the fourth inning, when four runs crossed the plate. Howard led off with a single and Burns was hit by a pitched ball. Chase dribbled one to the infield and Creson cut off Russell's toss to Brooks, covering second. All the runners were safe, and Zarakov hit to shortstop, who tossed Howard out at home. Lord drove a mighty triple to the outfield's limits, cleaning the sacks, and scoring himself on a sacrifice fly by Chauncey...
...fundamentalist leader: "Both the Governor and the attorney general did wrong. They should have permitted the members of their families to die and have died themselves rather than violate their oaths of office. An officer of the law swears to support the law and his family interests should not cut the slightest figure once he has taken the oath...
Three men sat, like the Three Fates, close together on the Government bench of the House of Commons. Like the Fates, they had power to cut a thread of life-the slender diplomatic thread linking the two largest countries on the globe. The British Empire had come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped...
...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...