Word: tangental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...address of Mr. Chase of the Watch and Ward Society delivered at the Liberal Club yesterday and quoted to some extent in this morning's CRIMSON there is revealed an emotionalism verging on the incredible, yet nevertheless tangent to the same circle of sincere religious experience known to less fervent minds. That a majority of the college will thus esteeem it is improbable. Youth, after all, is not essentially liberal...
...large university there is a tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
...better reason. Just outside the earth's atmosphere, he says, is a wall of crystalline particles of nitrogen. This is what makes the sky blue. It also explains, he thinks, why radio waves follow the contour of the earth, instead of flying off from it at a tangent. This would seem to indicate that radio communication with other planets will always be impossible...