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Word: drag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there such a thing as ether, as the old-school physicists assert and Einstein denies? If so, does the ether fill the universe, absolutely at rest and permeating freely through all material bodies, or does the earth, as it revolves upon its axis, drag the ether with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ether and Light | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...only natural that some subjects are easier to the majority than the average course, in spite of the fact that they are interesting and perhaps very valuable. But this is no excuse for converting these less difficult classes into popular playgrounds in which the professor tries gamely to drag and audience perfectly trained in passive resistance through a game which has no charm except its simplicity or its restfulness. Of course the professor is partly responsible for creating interest in his subject among the students who come to hear him. To expound its ins and outs to the class should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REWARD OF VIRTUE | 9/27/1923 | See Source »

...Stresemann Government is in a very awkward position. Both the Right and the Left are strong forces to oppose. If they unite or if they clash, the Government is considered certain to fall and perhaps drag the German Republic with it. The German political atmosphere reeks with rumors of civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ars Politico, | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...laugh to me and I felt sure it would drag one from the rest of the world, if I kept it going long enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Phrase? | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...Bradford devotes his energies to portraiture and mural decorations. But he never does landscape. He says he enjoys the scenes of nature too much to drag them into his workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Prix de Rome | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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