Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
...touched on Feb. 19) and since then at sea. Considerable breakage of crockery resulted; the heavy seas prevented deep sea trawling to bring up the little monsters from great depths. These live under such great pressure that they usually burst when brought to the surface because their high inward pressure, developed to meet the great weight of the water of the depths, cannot endure when they are lifted to the low pressure of the surface...
...observations have a considerable importance. Another essay, Mr. La Farge's "The Incompleat Angler", is an example of the same class. Mr. La Farge writes refreshingly and well, with a gift for impressions and a skill of style which are unusual. "For reflection (he says) is to the true, inward charm of fishing as the vague ideas that float half-recorded through one's brain when good music is playing are to that music itself"--an admirable simile...
...MIRACLE-The outward and visible sign of Max Reinhardt's inward and spiritual grace, assaying...
...might be called a defense of bad architecture. Many of the college buildings can be badly criticized from an architectural point of view, but their associations make us overlook this. President Eliot as at last admonition to the students advised them to look forward not backward, outward not inward, but it is not also important to seek inspiration from the past in the buildings of this University...