Word: onrushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does...
Naturally, when President Wilson went to the Versailles Conference he took the Secretary of State. Mr. Lansing opposed linking the League Covenant with the Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His visionary ardor had become imperiousness, self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force...
...great as its predecessor, but passes through a country whose shattered levees offer relatively little resistance. Crops, hastily planted in still muddy ground, have been inundated again, and from 15,000 to 20,000 persons in Arkansas alone were once more forced to abandon their homes before the new onrush...
Upholding the reputation established by its predecessors, the Freshman hockey team overwhelmed the Andover sextet in the Boston Arena yesterday afternoon by a 7 to 0 score. The schoolboys showed a great need for practice and could not cope with the Crimson onrush once the 1930 combination launched its attack...
...Hermann Sudermawn, 69, Son of a brewer (TIME, June 4, 1923), onetime (1881-82) editor of the Deutsches Reichsblatt, famed novelist, greatly respected, has been wise to remain inactive amid the onrush of German authors to new and often fantastic art concepts...