Word: slide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assembling their summaries, reports, surveys and other economic data, statisticians in the Washington Bureau of Internal Revenue last week finished their logarithmic and slide-rule computations and put the total U. S. income for 1926 at nearly 90 billion dollars?3 billions more than in 1925. It was only an estimate. Two more years of statistical accumulation will be necessary before an actual figure can be determined...
...signed that it would discriminate between ripe and unripe bolls. On the new machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders reach the end of the backward slide, their spindles have finished the task of combing all loose fibres off the branches...
...white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect...
...Presently the mother can vary the procedure by letting him crawl about on the bed first until he nears the edge, whereupon she should turn him face down and help him with his backward slide. He will soon learn to get into the proper position by himself when he sees the edge near...
...same way he should be taught to slide from step to step down the stairway, backward and face downward, and given many careful lessons in climbing upstairs, too, putting a knee up first at each step...