Word: swing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sseldorf the sagacious Berlin detectives had in full swing last week two amazing ruses to trap the members of a Crime Club* supposedly patterned on the notorious 18th Century Cercle des Amis du Crime described by the "Marquis" de Sade. In the first place, the detectives arranged for a Düsseldorf stock company to put on a Sadistic drama likely to appeal to members of the Crime Club. Behind concealed peepholes commanding a view of everyone who entered the theatre stood persons-mostly girls-who had recently been slashed in the vicinity of Düsseldorf but had escaped...
...types uf tuberculosis are very much alike. But the sugars differ greatly. Hence the sugars are suspected of bearing a close relation to the disease and it is the sugars which tuberculesis researchers are trying to control. Hope lies in using light or some other catalyst to swing the chemical combinations of the sugars with fats and sugars with albumins away from those forms which seem to stimulate the growth of tubercles.-William Charles White, U. S. Public Health Service...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: An ultra-liberal Democrat, he has shown an individual talent for legislation. His political and economic theories cause him to swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry...