Word: pent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the horses are restricted; they can take a little exercise early in the morning, but must go back to bed at 10 a.m. Meanwhile vituperative challenges pass to and for between Mr. O'Hara in his pent-house on the roof of the grandstand and Governor Quinn under the marble done on one of Providence's Seven Hills...
...affair very nonchalantly when they are not in mass demonstrations. The Japanese very deservedly have the reputation of being exceptionally courteous to foreigners. This courtesy is still present under the war situation, although every now and then some overworked official drops the veil for an instant to loose his pent up emotions...
...Stringfellow and his fellow executives were troubled. The Edison battery functions because, when iron oxide and nickel hydrate (suitably packed in a battery box) are charged with electricity, a chemical reaction is set up which enables the battery to discharge itself in any vehicle or spot where its pent-up energy may be needed. The iron used in the batteries comes from Sweden because Swedish iron is unusually free from impurities, but traces of nickel were found however in a $40,000 shipment of Swedish iron which recently reached the Edison factory at West Orange. Dared the company take...
...Girdler should be disarmed and restrained by the Government before he turns the steel districts into a bloody shambles and looses all the pent-up forces of human passion...
...read and speed but not the science of upbringing. Perhaps the public feels that Harvard men will make poor fathers, or no fathers at all, after seeing them emerge from Widener, bleary eyed and exhausted. Perhaps it feels students should have some other outlet besides riots for their pent-up emotions. Perhaps it doesn't feel...