Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon did the ex-Premier flush with anger, despite the fact that he is a professor of mathematics, a critic of the Einstein theory. He dropped the big book with a bang and with 20 of his Socialist colleagues he dashed across the Chambre to storm the Royalist benches. Six uniformed sergeants-at-arms rushed forward to stop the threatened melée; one seized M. Painlevé around the waist, but it was useless; they were outnumbered. Blows, kicks, curses, cuffs rained in profusion...
...increased from $65,191,467 in 1922 to $81,843,232 last year, but the margin of profit on every dollar also rose from 10.15 cents in 1922 to 11.60 cents in 1923. The remarkable thing about both these companies is their prosperity in boom and depression alike. In flush times, the poorer classes who ordinarily would not buy at all, flock to them; in hard years, buyers who, when prosperous, are willing to patronize more expensive stores, return to the chain stores to economize...
...flush of victory it is perhaps easy to forget, for a moment, what lies ahead. Two successive defeats made most Harvard men anxious above all for victory over Princeton this year. But the Yale game is still to be played and Harvard will never forget that the Yale game is the last on the schedule. When November twenty-fourth arrives "there is almost no chance" as the Yale News remarks rather ironically "of Harvard's being indifferent". In the past Yale has not had to complain of Harvard indifference on the football field, and, in view of the records...
Jess Willard, huge anachronism of the ring, struck a blow for middle-aged men. The blow landed flush on the point of Floyd Johnson's jaw in the closing seconds of the eleventh round of their fight at the New York Yankee ball park. The force of Willard's fist lifted Johnson off his feet and he dropped like a dead man. He was unable to answer the bell for the twelfth round. Willard, 42 years old, had knocked out the best of the young heavyweights, a man young enough...
...purpose and the atmosphere of his work, it is no less necessary to examine his literary milieu, the books which have aroused his imagination and formed his taste. From this point of view, the Classics of Greece and Rome have been contemporary with every age. Even in the full flush of Romanticism, Shelley turns to Greece whose seal is set "on all the race of man inherits", and Words-worth can sigh with some wistfulness for a breath of Horatian freedom...