Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Institute of Technology, who had won the Nobel Prize for isolating and measuring the electron, sank his recorders under 280 ft. of water in California. Some rays, after fighting their way through the atmosphere, had enough drive left to reach that depth in the lake, indicating power to thrust through 25 ft. of solid lead, which was 50 times more penetration than any other known radiation...
...them thrust a revolver through the left door, his accomplice entered the car from the right and took the wheel. They then sandwiched Calvocoressi between them, warned him to be silent, and drove off toward the South End. After robbing him of $10 and a wrist watch, they ordered him out of the car and informed him they would leave it about a mile further up the street...
...Promptly threats against Jon Lindbergh took on new volume and violence. Meantime the Lindberghs were thoroughly alarmed by an incident in Englewood. As Jon was being motored to his nursery school a large automobile sped up, forced the Lindbergh car to the curb. Strange men leaped out, thrust cameras at the child (see cut), sped away. Since then Jon had not been to school. "National Disgrace- First reaction of U. S. editors to news of the Lindbergh flight was to beat their breasts in shame, to deplore U. S. lawlessness for driving the Nation's No. i hero into...
This strange dream did thrust me forward some three hundred years to a land which was called Newe England which today I hear is overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country...
...enough long-range planning of a scholarly sort. ... In scholarly capacity, one might rate our faculty at about 75%; in willing laboriousness at 90%; in successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils, at 70%. The odium of this last score should be borne largely by the institution, not thrust on the teacher, because St. Paul's does not exalt scholarship, and has preferred to turn out what is known as the all-round citizen, which means a person who excels in nothing. All-round means small-round." ¶ "Education is in part quickened by migration. Sentimental Americans are forever...