Word: lever
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...power to generalize, the capacity to apply"--verily supermen! Each of the old estates was welded together by social cohesion, ecclesiastical unity, economic community, or occupational amity. The nobles, the clergy, the middle class, and the press each have found their vantage point from which to act as a lever upon society. But can this fifth estate of intelligentsia attain any such unity...
...Chaffee '17. the two brothers invented a revolving nozzle, which rotates by centrifugal force, and causes the sand to fly out. This nozzle contains an internal and an external electrode, and is driven by an alternating generator installed on the plane. By turning a small lever one way or the other the direction of the current may be changed, and the sand particles thus charged either positively or negatively. Early last spring permission was obtained from the University authorities for airplanes to land on Soldiers Field for the first time in the history of the University. These planes were then...
...next week at a conference of the Party's executives, was thought by some to indicate that the schism within the Labor ranks was healed. Such was not necessarily the case; for Premier MacDonald is irretrievably bound to the Anglo-Russian Treaty?which is to be used as a lever to oust the Laborites (TIME, Sept. 29)?while Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden is opposed to the financial clauses of the Treaty on the ground that the Government would be unable to finance the cheaper food scheme as contained in the above platform...
...annual Labor Day races, Commodore Gen. Wood, clamping down the gas-lever of Miss Detroit VII, won the 150-mile international sweepstakes by a two-second margin over Cigarette Jr., of New York. Edsel Ford's boat, 999, burst into flames, sank beneath...
...Manhattan. Offsetting and in certain points eclipsing the canvases crowned with official awards, one finds an occasional vital and moving contribution by some out-and-out radical-as for example Rockwell Kent's radiant reverie of the Sun-lit Valley, or the emotionalized landscape transcriptions of Haley Lever and Allan Tucker. The large and growing group of independent-spirited painters who still remain "of" though not always "with" the National Academy includes such significant names as Childe Hassam, Gari Melchers, Robert...