Word: headon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gripped as usual by the muscles of M. Caillaux's right eye was his monocle. He was reading. Suddenly out of the fog-a truck! Brakes screamed. The chauffeur did his best to swerve. But the long low cradling limousine crashed headon, crumpled, overturned. The monocle, gripped spasmodically at the moment of impact, shattered, terribly cutting M. Caillaux about...
Professor C. J. Sisson, writing on the House plan in this morning's CRIMSON, Has erred twice therein on the side of optimism. In his expectation that students will use tier better opportunity to learn from students he is running headon into a train of Harvard thought that has for the past two years been gathering greater speed in the other direction. Students at Harvard today believe, in general, that there are few time investments that pay such short interest as Conversation and Contacts. The "bull session" is dead, not of the exactness of its titling, but of a realization...
...gentleman's straw hat blew into the water, upsetting a sailboat. Yachts kept running into each other headon. In one race a blue sloop in front of all the rest had a collision with a swan and was forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...
Descamps, one of France's most brilliant airmen, owes his life to a tree and his own presence of mind. Gliding near Paris, he lost control and plunged into a ravine headon. Then it was that he managed to lodge his craft squarely in the branches of a huge...