Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hillside trembled, moved. The train, teetering crazily, swayed outward toward the precipice, then, as the earth rebounded, engine and cars were flung off their rails against the hillside?safe...
Such is M. Bratiano's outward, dilettante philosophy of life and statecraft. The pose has deceived many. A man with so much leisure for all that art and culture have to give must be, it would seem, extremely lucky to continue strong. In a measure Jon Bratiano has been lucky. He was fortunate, for example, to be born the son of that greater Jon C. Bratiano (1821-91) who freed Rumania from Turkey...
...mother. The father of these four children, a truck gardener, died some years ago and left her their sole support. She, previously a vigorous and goodlooking young woman, has become the victim of a disease known as acromegaly. This cruel and deforming malady not only completely transforms the outward appearance of those whom it afflicts but is attended with great suffering and often with loss of vision...
From out of the Middle West comes what is without doubt the soundest indictment of the present condition of college athletics yet to reach the public. A brief biography of the author makes clear that he possesses the outward qualifications at least to discuss the question intelligently...
...James were served up in a golden haze of Peter Pantheism. Then a despatch arrived from Sydney, Australia, where Baby Betty's mother, the Duchess of York, was sojourning with the Duke after arriving from England on H. M. S. Renown. The despatch told, briefly that on the outward voyage the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting disported themselves nightly with the Duke and members of his suite by dancing the authentic Charleston. As a result, continued the despatch, numerous British tars on H. M. S. Renown observed closely the royal example, learned to mimic a dance with...