Word: loomfuls
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...will inevitably loom in Democratic parleys between now and the nominating ballot at the convention. It is only a question of how soon...
While Harvard does not loom as Indiana's strongest opponent this season, after her defeat at the hands of Purdue, Indiana's sister school and traditional rival, the interest in this game will probably eclipse that in any contest of this year's schedule. Indiana is out to settle forever the supremacy of the West over the East, of the Big Ten over the Big Three, or its 1927 equivalent, of co-ed schools over the purely male variety, and in particular, of Indiana over Harvard. In addition a victory will establish their equality with Purdue and avenge the defeat...
...rituals, list for hours and hours; sometimes they last for days. Their commercial possibilities are quickly recognized by hostelries, restaurants, and theatres, and are exploited accordingly. And then buried deep in the tinsel; there is also the game itself. What, however,, is coming to be practically optional. The evenings loom larger...
...France from her financial slough of last year, doubling the value of the franc, and tentatively stabilizing it, that no one seriously expected him to make of his debt-funding plans anything but a dark state secret until stability was achieved. Now the question of ratification has begun to loom again, and M. Poincaré answered it last week with characteristic flashing suddenness...
...Elements in the Christian church to which the community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing...