Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educated Chinese, particularly of the student class, has been able to compare the Occidental to his own, older civilization and to find the scales of judgment weighing in China's favor. Consequently, this class has been able to stir the masses out of their traditional inertia and to fan the smoldering fires of latent indignation into a fiery movement that does not lack analogy to the Boxer uprising of 1900. Bolshevik influences, including money, are no doubt a contributing cause of the disaffection, but can be largely discounted...
...alternating current because direct current causes chemical action at the electrodes, which would cause gross errors in the measurement. Professor Jones uses as the source of the alternating current an audion vacuum tube hooked up with capacities and inductances so that it "howls", in the vernacular of the radio fan, although in this case it might better be described as "singing" because it gives a beautiful pure note of single frequency, and can be made to give any note desired within the range of audibility...
...cake of ice and an electric fan are all right as long as they last, and a certain number of showers at strategic intervals are not without their good effect, but in the feverish heat of preparing for examinations all that the studious sufferer can do is grin and bear it. That and acquire a shot-gun to be used on the self-appointed humorist who says: "Is it hot enough...
...convictions, one is that a college president should teach classes. What manner of inspiration may be expected by Wesleyan students electing their President's courses next fall, was forecast last week. Said the President-elect: "The honor system is the finest flower of student responsibility. ... [I am] a fan on athletics . . . real preparation for the game of life. . . . [The college's "spiritual tradition"] is a certain indefinable something that is a very definite part of the college, a thing or things which cannot be put in words or which cannot be expressed in material terms...
...Black Fleet in close formation, a fan of destroyers racing ahead, its supply ships carefully guarded behind, steamed toward the coast...