Word: slid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Cunard Line's oil-burning liner Scythia slid into New York Harbor last week, coal companies perked up, oil companies were cast down and a dead inventor was remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...
...rules of the Association call for outdoor competition and the Freshman cinder track was thought to be the most satisfactory, although the dust hampered the vision of the fencers. Several times the swordsmen slid on the uncertain footing and went sprawling over their opponents. National contests will be held in New York in the near future, but no members of the University six plan to enter...
While Miss Lauer stood by to guard against accidents and too much activity by her patient, he slid himself off his table, caught hold of a horizontal bar affixed to the side wall of the pool. Supported partly by the bar, partly by the deep water, he thrust out his legs alternately as though he were riding a bicycle. Tired of "bicycling," he "abducted" and "addicted" his legs (raised & lowered them sideways), creating great swirls of water. A swim and a walk in four feet of water unsupported by brace, crutch or attendant, are included in his daily 45 minutes...
Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...
...turbulence of their own existence--passed on chiefly by one writer. His name he gained from the river itself, for once he had found his living there. He had heard the man at the lead call out his soundings "By the mark twain" as the sleepy shore slid...