Word: splinteredness
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Last week in Baltimore 5,000 dentists from all corners of the U. S. came together like so many well-fitting bicuspids, to celebrate a century of scientific dentistry. The dentists had good cause to show their teeth in pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world...
Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter, its designer and driver, was easing the monster down a wooden ramp to the ice. Suddenly the heavy planks crackled, splintered, flew in all directions like straws in a whirlwind. In the vibrant words of the radio message which reached the Navy Department : "Dr. Poulter, faced...
Out toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from...
One day last week the British cruiser Orion was anchored in Kingston Harbor; special police and militia were stationed at every street corner with riot guns and tear gas. At the end of the day 52 people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The...
But he was born with an urge to protest. At 15, he followed his father into the Socialist Party, and soon he was deep in Leftist ferment. When World War Objector Earl Browder emerged from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1920, William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from...