Word: tangent
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...Senate Finance Committee returned from this tangent for ten minutes in which time it favorably reported out the Moratorium resolution. Republican leaders hoped to give President Hoover a Christmas present by whipping the measure through the Senate before this week's holiday recess...
...think for themselves that they will try to express their ideas. If there is no opportunity savd on an examination, they will try it there, usually with disastrous conseqnences to themselves. The more interested they are in the subject, the more likely they are to go off on a tangent, and put too much time on the phase that has especially drawn their attention. The result is a very lopsided blue-book...
...their love. George Abbot and S. K. Lauren have written a suburban drama, in which the former appears, about a novelist who goes to a hotel with a discontented matron Awhile his wife is out of town. He is duly repentant and places no great significance on his sexual tangent. The wife is rather distraught and decides upon a separation, even though it means unpleasantness for their young son who has been home from preparatory school while the adultery was being exposed. But when matters are explained to the boy he professes a tolerant love for his father, which stimulates...
...Judge Ben B.] Lindsey had acquired nation-wide publicity with his works and methods [in the Juvenile Court] and was doing great work here in Denver. It is too bad that he went off on a tangent as he did during the past few months."*?Judge E. S. Matthias of the Ohio Supreme Court...
...bespeak a desire for the rich and gaudy rather than a gradual return to a stately simplicity, while the actions of American tourists in Europe have been such as to show them far ahead of the Europeans as exhibitionists American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed it and is still enjoying it. It is far too soon to suppose that Americans will come back to the little cube of ice, when there are so many more delightful things to attract...