Word: revert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bleak, rainy afternoon, years later, in an office in a northern navy yard, a group of men talked idly, as sailors will. What more natural than that their memories should revert to sunnier scenes, and several having served in Samoa, the talk soon turned on this very incident. As the event was illuminated from different points in time the following sequel developed...
Night Key (Universal) refreshingly presents famed Bogeyman Boris Karloff as a gaunt, lovable genius at electrical gadgets. Much of the picture's suspense comes from the expectation that he will suddenly revert to monster type. He never does, though he has plenty of provocation...
...Unlike the President's proposal for the Supreme Court, the law providing for the appointment of a fifth member will not permanently increase the size of the Third Circuit Court. It provides that when a death or retirement takes place, the Court shall revert to four members...
...Glover and Henry Russell Ames Memorial Aid" for the year 1936-37 to Mr. John B. Bowditch, President of the Student Council and former President of the CRIMSON. The award to Mr. Bowditch has been made without stipend, and the funds which would normally go with the award will revert to the general Council Aid Fund for assignment to students who are in especial need of financial assistance. The Ames Memorial Aids were established by, the Council in November, 1935, and are awarded to a Junior or Senior who has shown energy in helping himself and who, as well, exhibits...
...Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.), who only last week succeeded in getting assurance that the Reich would not confiscate his $40,000 prize. *To this 100% ambiguous statement, mildly uttered, Der Führer may at any time characteristically revert with angry vigor, making it mean then that Germany "claims" the colonies now under the British, French and other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff...