Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meteors, literally "things in the air," refer specifically to luminous bodies known as shooting stars, falling stars, fireballs, bolides. Traveling rapidly through the air, they generate intense frictional heat which burns up most of their material substance. Thus, they become "balls" of fiery gases and small particles of carbon, magnesium, sodium, etc. The explosion of a meteor is due to its rapid combustion in the dense atmosphere near the earth. It is estimated that some 20,000,000 meteors, which would be visible to the naked eye in the absence of sunlight, moonlight or clouds, enter the atmosphere every...
Tilden, on hearing of this remark, defended himself: "I knew someone would fall for that. If I refer to Hunter as the junior member of our team, it is because he is a few months younger than I and not because I am ranking myself above...
...military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British vessels. The entire Soviet headquarters seems to have been what writers of mystery stories refer to as a "hot-bed of intrigue...
...Webster Thayer, trial judge in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, held under death sentence (TIME, Sept. 27, Nov. 1, April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...interests of a larger and finer whole. One may say without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations are essential to the success of any modern college or university...