Word: slant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single plane of two-dimensional Flatland, the inhabitants can, of course, see each other (and all things) only as straight lines. Fortunately, however, every Flatland creature has luminous edges; and there is chronic fog in Flatland, through the obscurity of which the slant of lines is quite apparent and a Figure's angles and shape can be inferred without feeling all his sides'. The Flatland women are mere straight lines, like needles. Hence they are brainless; hence also dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked...
...Harvard game is another matter, however, so far as the Genevans are concerned. It is thought here that the Crimson cannot possibly be as formidable as Cornell, hence there is an optimistic slant to the view held on the outcome. There were no injuries to speak of suffered in the inaugural, and Coach McMillin will be able to use the same team which faced Cornell...
...resembles the other Freshman dormitories, but there are some slight changes. It is built, like Gore and Standish, on three sides around a court, with the open side facing the Charles. But unlike these two, McKinlock's wings are not built at right angles to the main part, but slant out a greater angle. Instead of the usual dining room that is a feature of the other three sister halls, the new building has no dining room of its own, but has, instead, a large library, reserved exclusively for the entering class, and in which all books needed incourses regularly...
...famed Quaker Oats Company of Chicago does not confine its knowledge of psychology to America. Realizing that worshiping Japanese ape their divinely-descended royalty, sagacious salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control...
...Slant-eyed hooligans, brazen infidels, gathered at the fence to hoot at volleyball and Christianity. Came a troop of well-organized students from a nearby Chinese government school and joined the hooligans, broke down the fence, swarmed upon the volleyball field. The converts, attacked, left off their game, flew with their fists to the defense of their faith...