Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James K. Hackett, actor: " Golfing at Fontainebleau, I completely missed a ball, spun around several times, fell heavily on my right side, and broke my arm in two places above the elbow...
Five years later the trio reassembles to audit the proceeds of their gamble. After going over the books for two acts the girl decides the coin spun in her favor. The odd man seeks solace with a finale flapper...
...minute newspaper" started in New York is, like the three minute egg, another tribute by the world to the man in a hurry. The bustle and clatter of energy lavishly expended sets up a sympathetic vibration in every true American heart. Solicitous brains have spun for the busy man to give him a telephone and radio, a motor car and airplane, ready-to-wear clothes, and a meal reduced to seconds in a catch-as-catch-can restaurant...
There remains the old remedy of raising standards and there are the new psychological tests. But to seek to classify college boys on the basis of their expectation of benefit from a college or business career, is a pretty fine-spun theory of academic efficiency. The New York World
...bureaus which have become important parts of our governmental machinery. If is such work as this to which the educational foundations have dedicated themselves:--not only to meet real public needs, and to give substantial aid to educational institutions, but to induce others to do the same, and to spun on the institutions themselves to better efforts to live up to the best standards to civilization...