Word: slashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward evening of the third day's fighting, some 30 men sat silently thinking, and when the sun had dropped behind vast Mont Real they had reconsidered and restruck every swing and slash of the three-day battle and each knew why and just where he had lost the prize, but they could do nothing. Nothing except congratulate the winner, a freckled mite of a Scotsman, Macdonald Smith...
...prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...
Competition in the steel business is such that all producers are straining every nerve to slash production costs as never before in the history of the industry...
...financial sensation of the past week has been the completely unex- pected slash in the rediscount rate of the Bank of England, from...
With one grand slash of the pen, the professor reduces all mankind to a single dead level. "There is no such thing," says he, "as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics. These things depend on training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every...