Word: fulcrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what was wrong with the pair of them. Mrs. Sanger gave Dr. Stopes practical advice on contraceptives after which the two went shopping in London for material and information and Dr. Stopes got an annulment of her marriage. Result was that Married Love acquired validity and became a mighty fulcrum for birth control in England...
...sapient observer has observed, "becoming liberal to be conservative." So far has the New Deal shifted the fulcrum of U. S. politics that the old dividing line between Democrats and Republicans is today supplanted by a new line, less regular but more real, between Left and Right, collectivist and individualist, "new socialist" and "old capitalist." In viewing the present Congress, especially the Senate, it is noteworthy that the new liberal complexion derives not only from President Roosevelt but from the old "insurgent" Republicans or Progressives with whom, the old Democratic minority used to work. Out of line with all parties...
...Spitfire's muscles used that jaw as a fulcrum to throw his teeth and claws into action, anywhere, against this strange enemy. Somehow the leopard swung himself around the shark's head . . . quickly discovering two vulnerable resting places for his terrible claws-one under the shark's right eye, which Spitfire ripped out-the other in an opening in the gills, which he clawed through with a single gouging sweep. . . ." The shark let go, but before Spitfire could escape another shark got him, and the last Mr. Buck saw of him they were tearing him to pieces...
...Fulcrum of the I. C. C.'s five-party plan, Wabash has had a strenuous career in its 94 years of operation. In 1877 it was reorganized after its original 12-mi. line from Meredosia to Morgan, Ill. had grown to 678 miles. Twelve years later it was again reorganized but escaped receivership. Twenty-six years of financial peace followed, ended abruptly in 1915. The company went into receivership, was sold under foreclosure for $18,000,000 cash and assumption of underlying mortgages...