Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind that struck the cylindrical metal sails created suction on their surfaces, the suction being greatest on the forward surfaces when they were rotated "into the wind" - i.e., clockwise for a starboard breeze, counterclockwise for a larboard. By proper reversals of the rotors, the ship was easily made to tack and maneuver...
...picture of the body for "X marks the spot" as merely the Daily News. But later in your reference to the Evening Journal you are careful to say the Hearst Evening Journal. Surely every one knows that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst, but anyway, if you must tack the Hearst onto it, why not also mention the names of the gentlemen who own the Daily News? The latter would be news to more of your readers than the information that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst. I like TIME and I work for Mr. Hearst and I want...
Coady has been one of the outstanding performers on the eleven for two seasons. Last year he played a powerful game at left tackle. This fall he was shifted to fullback, and assumed the burdens of the interfering and defensive tack, along with the punting duties. At punting and backing up the line he was a capable backfield man, but he was more valuable in the line and went back to tackle after the Princeton game. His work in the line against Brown and Yale caused much favorable comment...
...Western nation. In spite of the reforms in dress and other customs which have been forced upon that land, it remains true to its tradition, the tradition of the East. Only recently a new proof of this was brought to light when some Turkish schoolchildren put a tack in the teacher's chair. Of course, they had been led by an infiltration of western ideas to believe that such a joke would so pain the teacher as to amuse the class. They reckoned not upon the Oriental influences that were to work upon that tack...
Schooled in the apathy of the mystic, in the ataraxy of the Oriental stoic, the teacher sat quietly upon the tack and conducted his class. Then, when he had ended his lecture, he expelled them all. Thus did tradition of the East vanquish the smartness of the West in a Turkish seat of learning...