Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jacques Garneau, the champion dancer of Quebec province, spun and hopped, snapped his gnarled fingers, and clapped his hands...
...theme of the Chamber's convention, chosen by President Lewis Eugene Pierson, was "Teamwork for Prosperity." The speakers spun many a variation thereanent, on competition (War), Federal regulation (Politics), commercial integrity (Ethics). Secondary to these considerations were the speeches on economics. The high point of the week came when the Chamber passed a resolution occasioned by the Rockefeller-Stewart controversy in the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign...
...endowed ought to produce scholars. We stopped fifteen minutes to see the collection of glass models of plants and flowers in the University Museum. The forms and colors are exquisite. The plants look real, roots, leaves and flowers, and insects fertilizing them, and yet they are all made of spun glass...
...SPIDER?A murder web spun by a magician...