Word: skid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanency and a success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank and produces it, we'll use it as a skid to send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang hymns-Onward Christian Soldiers, etc. The President appeared on the portico...
...they cannot do it yet. To advertise an Air Carnival at Mitchel Field, L. I., Lieutenant Edwin Johnson obtained permission from the New York City authorities to land on Riverside Drive near Grant's tomb. His plane, the Speery Messenger, flew down under ideal conditions, but a skid on slippery asphalt caused a collision of plane and lamp post with damage to both. Still, the aviator flew back to Mitchel Field that same afternoon...
...soothingly on the grease, mud and avert the skid demon...
...intellectually alert and intellectually eager, to whom increasingly the opportunities of higher education ought to be restricted, if democracy is to become a quality product rather than simply a quantity one, and if excellence and effectiveness are to displace the mediocrity towards which democracy has such a tendency to skid...