Word: maelstrom
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...second only to Frank W. Stearns as an intimate friend of President Coolidge, has been appointed presidential campaign manager the hue and cry is on. Mr. Coolidge, true to his reputation, has acted the part of the silent, hard-working, deliberate executive forced almost against his will into the maelstrom of pre-convention politics. But when once he has arrived at his decision he has acted with the firmness which is traditionally his greatest claim to fame. He has mentioned Cleveland and the Republican National Committee has bowed to his will. He has mentioned Butler and crowds of party leaders...
...same trade; then to Springfield, Ill., as a clerk in the State Department. There he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married? and from there returned to Toledo. There he was elected Mayor on an Independent ticket and held that office for eight years?through a maelstrom of strikes and political campaign. At the end he retired voluntarily...
...Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs, and a negro servant. Oh yes. There is also in the story a charming Mademoiselle de Bianzy, who adds a certain interest; but it seems almost as if the author had placed her in the center of the maelstrom rather as an after-thought and to full certain fundamental requirements of fiction; had, lifted her in over the top as it were...
...year 1920 must take its place with 1848 as a year of revolution. Even the academic world has been swept into the maelstrom--the most conspicuous fighting occurring at Ithaca, N. Y. Like the daily revolutions in Russia the causes of the Cornell outbreak are little understood by the outside world, the official dispatches being few and far between. Some interesting facts, however, may be gleaned from the report of the special Committee appointed from the Student Council and the two Senior Honorary Societies concerning the relations of women to the University...
...specialized training for a job has certain advantages. It teaches a man to do one thing efficiently and to stick to it. Here at College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...