Word: reverted
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...caused much consternation among those who knew her at Urbana, where she had adopted bobbed hair, short skirts, and other marks of the superior western civilization. They find it hard to understand how, after being exposed to the cultural advantages of the Illinois university, she could so far revert to barbarism as to marry a prince of her own race, and what is more, to stay by his side when he is in danger. There are some, however, who admire the Princess for doing so, when she might be living in the luxury of Hollywood, writing for the syndicated papers...
...spite of the fact that each writes amusing verse, that particular style probably savors more of the King James Bible than any, other one source. Not yet may Miss Millay have a school, although if she did Miss Parker would be a splendid pupil; but the roots of poetics revert much further than even an illustrious Vassar graduate...
...that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first water. How long these stones would stay purified, Dr. Field could not say. But they had not reverted in four years time; perhaps they would never revert. Big Manhattan jewelry houses took notice...
...legal bid. The penalties for bidding eight or more: the offender and his partner are barred from the auction; either opponent may 1) demand a new deal; 2) require the declaration to be played at seven, doubled or undoubted, by the offending side; or 3) direct that the auction revert to the last legitimate declaration "and be continued by his side from that point...
...celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...