Word: slide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong in "Romantic Melancholy" by J. A. Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something singing over the hill". The pastoral images are there again and the wistful feeling that escapes "over...
...Time," he continued, "counts for everything in observing eclipse. Two or three weeks before its occurrence we have to go through all the motions of taking the photographs. Sometimes the slide will stick, or the camera may not be in working order. Nothing like this can be allowed to happen on the day of the eclipse. We must be absolutely sure that everything is in perfect order, and we must practice for speed. In the past, I have often had the stop watch on me, as I practiced changing the slides. A few seconds makes all the difference...
...excuse for any U. S. newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...
Edwin Thacher, '63, slide rule inventor, designer of the five-span Kansas River Bridge at Topeka...
...sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches and vulgarities-English that would disgrace a manager of prizefighters or a county superintendent of schools? Then the fault belongs plainly not to some remote man but to a proximate man-to the man who lets such drivel slide under his nose...