Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bicycle Race. Not to be mesmerized by the whirring tires, not to cheer for representatives of their own race did goggle-eyed addicts stare hour after hour, night & day at the pine-board saucer. It was, for most of them, the hope of being startled by the impact of wheels, the slither of tangled bodies on the track...
...with a broken collarbone. By 9:30 p. m., the spills numbered 28. Next night Norman Hill pedaled into Dave Lands. The latter was only slightly damaged but the Californian dislocated his collarbone. Hour later, Eddie Testa relieved his partner, Echevaria, by bowling into him. So great was the impact that Echevaria's pedal broke through the wooden surface of the track. Echevaria retired with severe bruises, and Testa paired with Peden to leave nine teams in the race. In the last hour, with three teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling...
...that there is an advantage to the respective institutions which adopt this policy and carry it to fulfillment. Some one of the English writers has said that, granting the great desirability of tradition, plant, and distinction in processes of instruction, nevertheless the most vital phase of education is the impact of youthful mind on youthful mind. This is fundamental in my philosophy of higher education, and I believe that sectionalism and provincialism both are as undesirable as they are impossible in the modern world. For that reason I believe that a man who in his four years in an undergraduate...
...problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully-made plans were rendered irrelevant, where bewildering and unprecedented problems arose and where, in a haze of fantastic misconceptions, governments struggled for possession of unknown continents. Not a severe critic of Spain's colonial policy, Sociologist Means notes that...
...climaxes. Instead, with the aid of a sympathetic script, by Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut. he gave it a straight-forward treatment, emphasized the backgrounds rather than the plot. The result is that Way Down East has a disarming charm which is almost a satisfactory substitute for the emotional impact of its famed original...