Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiddled with the ropes Sergeant Irvine smelt smoke. It curled in tiny wisps from the apartments of the private secretary. As he raised the alarm crackling flames burst through. Before fire engines could travel the twelve miles from Belfast, Hillsborough Castle was leaping skyward in a vast, black swirl...
...determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...changing ideas of education of the day. It was a time when the elective system and the high standards of the University were under fire and the way with which the President handled his tasks is extremely interesting reading to those who today are involved in the changing swirl of education...
Harvard has rolled dizzily in Harkness millions. Harvard has watched some hundred thousands in Krueger and Toll swirl gently into a financial maelstrom. But through New Era and New Deal, oblivious to both, fingers of steel have clasped the purse-strings of Lehman Hall. To the undergraduate, Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white...
...made the evening. Instead of the usual 80 players there were 104 in the pit. No music is more difficult. The strings in places are divided into 20 parts. 'Cellos must behave like violins. The tympanist does sleight of hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental...