Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more years the furnaces were cold. Duquesne called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass of oil-soaked waste. Laborers did the same through eleven other holes and Furnace No. 4 was then blown in. That night Duquesne paraded in celebration...
...Milk St., Boston, Mass,--I Conant tell you who the next president will be but Hoover he is he will be Merriman tonight. I don't want to Shattuck any hopes but the Overseers have their Baxter the wall. While they may Perry the Corporation's first thrust, they haven't much Lee-way. Now Prexy must be a Munn whose Wadsworth a lot so he will not drive up to the president's house in a second-Han'ford. There is always the grand-father Clark in the corner. But cooney Corporation will pick man whose name...
...small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene of one of his grandfather's great victories and centre of the Spanish estates thrust upon him by a grateful Cortes, is a little fortified Spanish town between Salamanca and the Portuguese frontier. Tourists bless the ultra-British foxhunting Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, for in that town is one of the quaintest, best run inns in Western Spain, the Hospederia del Castillo de Enrique...
...another, to the distaste of all concerned. Every one of the seven articles printed in the CRIMSON for the guidance of the Freshmen, admitted the existence of cliques in the House. This is definite evidence that college men will not have people whom they do not care for, thrust upon them as friends. A cross section would merely multiply the number of these cliques to the benefit...
...because she was a queen who came to a bad end, but because she was "the average woman of yesterday, today, and tomorrow . . . and therefore (one might fancy) unsuited to become the heroine of a tragedy. . . . But tragedy arises no less when a momentous position, a crushing responsibility, is thrust upon a mediocrity or a weakling. Indeed, tragedy in this form makes a strong appeal to our human sympathies. . . . Marie Antoinette, the mediocrity, achieved a greatness commensurate with her destiny...