Word: fulcrum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single classes comprising hall memberships, and not representatives of four. Our feeling on this subject has been based not so much on a fear that university representation in halls will be a divisive factor in the life of the College, as that the emasculating of the class as a fulcrum of government and social intercourse will disrupt a hallowed and highly admirable feature of our society...
...jumped, surveyed the situation, and then attacked a road-side sapling with an axe he carried in his car. With the aid of this and a few flat stones to serve for what he called a "bait" but what the Vagabond's physics professors would have termed a fulcrum, the errant auto was soon back on the road...
...Irregular Republicans thus became the fulcrum of another Senate seesaw, and the tax fight changed from a question of total reduction to several questions, on what reductions shall be made...
...gold, has grown up in grey Wall Street about the New Year's Eve of the great House of Morgan. It is told that as the old year passes the Morgan partners assemble in the low chunky marble building which stands at Broad and Wall Streets, the solid fulcrum of the business world. They come to sit in quiet, awful council while Mr. Morgan apportions to each his share of the firm's profits for the previous year. Naturally the largesse of a Morgan is always large. To this partner several hundred thousand dollars; to that...
Military critics have been inclined to give credit to General von Ludendorff for the Tannenberg victory. Be that as it may, Hindenburg got public credit for the victories; his immense wooden statue in War-time Berlin was veritably the fulcrum post of German patriotism and his popularity dwarfed all the leaders of Germany...