Word: headlong
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...gods may be, during the torture of any especially unfortunate and protracted turn, that the spirit of Cyrano was not reborn in him, and that he could not produce a sword from beneath the seat which didn't even have enough room for his knees, and drive the offender headlong from the stage...
...most use, although there are many members of the Faculty and student body who, after one attempt, have sworn off for life. In recent years, however more and more have been venturing into the Widener life, and the time is now rare when it pauses on its headlong flight between floors...
...bales, last of the U. S. Depression surpluses. About half of this carry-over is controlled by the Government. But the Government did get out of the futures market last week for the first time since 1929, when Herbert Hoover's Farm Board first plunged headlong into the private cotton business. Reports were that the Cotton Pool cleared its books by selling a 25,000-bale futures contract to Speculator Jesse Livermore who is currently making one of his perennial comebacks...
...without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk $5,400,000 in the Florida ditch, and well he knew that Republican campaigners would not let U. S. voters forget his headlong largess...
These are stirring days. The Student Council is progressively revising the College, and the Crimson is rapidly revising the Student Council. But the former, in its headlong flight, has made, to my mind, one serious mistake which has not yet been caught up by the latter...