Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother entered the University of Washington. There Bertha, now 16 and 160 lb., "like a truck horse," had her first lover. She took to the road, fell in love with an anarchist in San Francisco, followed him to New Orleans. By the time she had made her first swing around the country she knew all the ropes. In Chicago, which she calls the woman hobo centre, she worked a while for a celebrated abortionist; later traveled for some months with a gang of shoplifters...
Hard Lines. George Earle is not just a politician with an eye on the main chance, nor is he just a puppet of either the Democratic machine or Labor. To swing to the liberal wing of politics, a son of wealth has to be endowed with a considerable fund of convictions. George Earle's convictions on civil liberty, against tyranny of any kind, were demonstrated during his two years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship...
...rapidity with which it passes a given point vary because, the earth's orbit around the sun and the moon's orbit around the earth being elliptical, the earth-sun and earth-moon distances vary. For a long eclipse, the sun must be near its maximum swing of over 94,000,000 miles (mean distance: 92,900,000 mi.) and the moon near its minimum distance of 218,000 miles (mean: 235,000 mi.). This condition occurred this week. When the sun is farther away than usual, the shadow cone beyond the moon is longer; and when...
Washington Street is ablaze with marquees as the Vagabond weaves his way. In deadly peril his eyes blink and head ducks from sharp, swarming umbrellas. Ticket sellers, polished bars, and even the warped old lady vending gardenias are busy in the rain. Doors of movie palaces swing forever, and before the Park Theatre, flaunting its usual lascivious attraction, stand two sailor boys counting their coins...
...high, the clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When the sun expands the steel, the towers will lean several feet, the two 36½-in. cables will lengthen 16 ft. Greatest stress of all that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate...