Word: sway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order came. Compressed air pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared...
Carrie Lane, Carrie Chapman, Carrie Catt, name her what you will, an Iowa farmer's daughter (born however in Wisconsin), was thus denounced, and, her spirit certainly held sway in the meeting of the International Suffrage Alliance not only because of her financial contributions (as Mrs. Belmont mentioned) but because she was its founder and President from 1904 to 1923 when she retired (TIME...
Wherever instruments beat rhythms and humans whirl or sway in the dance, brisk tunes appear, engender lively songs, finally graft upon the tongue of man strange but glib phrases. Recent additions...
...Race. "They'r-r-re OFF!"... The long roar thundered like a wave, grumbled like a rising sea-surge through the crowd down the long stretch. The stands seemed to sway, to swell with it; hats and parasols and a foam of faces rose, hesitated for an instant on the top of the wave, settled slowly down into a whisperless silence. The horses moved down the stretch...
...cannot be said that they were swept away utterly by the strange, quiet Spanish singer. Her art was too subtle to sway a shrewd U. S. audience that had paid $27.50* a seat to be amused. It had been a great occasion in the theatre; one of the few supreme personalities of entertainment had fulfilled her promise, and Meller, who carries eight golden bracelets as mementos of her great successes, was fully entitled to purchase a ninth golden bangle. Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves...