Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briante, hammerhead of the New York University backfield, blighted Red Grange's record for a season's gain (1,260) when he plunged 30 yards the first time he took the ball against Allegheny (1,271). Soon N. Y. U. sent in the second team, limiting their shut-out over Allegheny to 81 points...
...rivers of New England spent last week recovering from their stroke of autumn apoplexy. As they shrank back to normal, the mills that they used to turn, the power plants they used to keep humming, emerged from the flood covered with muck. Winter began to shut down and the muck froze. Much New England industry was crippled for months to come...
Admiral Magruder: "I have been lucky in my career up to this time, but it has been the mistake of my life that I have talked too much. Navy men are taught to keep their mouths shut...
...thumbing his nose at him (both hands), wiggling & waggling his fingers. Would Mr. Ford be interested? Many people thought not. He might see himself (unmistakably, although he is called simply "The Old Man") facing a revolt of his workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some sex. Moments of engrossing writing; moments of shrewd, imaginative staging scarcely salvage the stormy whole. The title is derived from a strip...
...guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...