Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Yves Thomas steered past a line of wooden barges, humped like haymows on the water; wheeled his great ship to pass a steamer. AH he rounded it, he saw the lights of a Norwegian freighter, the Beesengen, riding at anchor. It was too late to swing the bow, too late to reverse his course. Shrill bells and whistles sounded as the bow of the Paris drove into the side of the dingy ship...
...Humphrey P. Guinness- kept in condition by heaving medicine balls around the decks of the Minnetonka. Which of these five will be selected for the team of four is not yet decided. Their form on the fast U. S. fields will determine the matter. One other, however, will probably swing a British mallet when the team takes the field. He is Capt. C. T. I. Roark, an Irishman, connected with the British Army in India merely by reason of his membership in the reserve corps. Captain Atkinson and Manager Tomkinson must decide before September, when the matches are scheduled, whether...
Thesis YOUR MONEY'S WORTH-Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink-Macmillan ($2).* The consumer seldom gets fair value for his money. He invests largely in the bright promises of clever copywriters, the seductive swing of an alluring slogan, the cumulative effect of millions of advertising dollars. He spends much more than he ought to pay for products that do much less than they claim to perform. "When the technique of advertising is arrayed on the side of the private balance sheet, may the Lord have mercy on the consumer's soul. . . ." Such is the Chase-Schlink thesis...
...finances, Mr. Bellanca came to the U. S. His relatives helped him secure funds to build a monoplane in Brooklyn. He taught himself to fly, set up an aviation school. During the War, he lost a contract with the British government because he did not have the money to swing it. He designed planes for a Maryland concern until it went bankrupt...
...Gerry Hardman meets her for the first time, When she has vainly waited a year for a second meeting, she marries Archie Roxby, bears him a son, becomes his widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies...