Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Scott, however, thinks otherwise. His prodigies, apparently selected without reference to emotional or psychic stability are collectively thrust into an artificial environment, minutely supervised by a committee, and submitted to a special brand of instruction. Revision of college courses to provide opportunity for work at varied levels would be a much saner procedure. That the Northwestern prodigies will be successful in their college work is as obvious as it is irrelevant. After four years, however, they will leave, socially unfitted, intellectually strained, and quite as far from the good life as they had been before. Possibly the professorial...
Instantly President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...
What John Doctor did, "any person excepting a corporation and excepting a farmer'' could do last week as the result of a bill signed by President Hoover day before he left office. An important revision of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. the measure represented a final thrust by a dying Congress at the dragon of private debt. By providing machinery whereby an individual could compose or compromise his debts under a judicial eye, it required only a bare majority of creditors to effect an agreement...
...aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession. To Admiral Clark had fallen the assignment of pretending to lead his force as an enemy fleet to the capture of Oahu, from which a thrust at the U. S. mainland would follow...
...course, never drew any considerable fraction of its students from north of New York. While Yale has probably regarded its contests with Harvard as the most important on its schedules, there has been no disposition there to belittle-or underestimate the historic rivalry with Princeton, and the cultural thrust of Yale has tended more and more toward the South. In fact, when the Big Three was an actuality in football, both Yale and Princeton favored a rotating schedule, a proposal which Harvard would never accept, insisting that the Harvard-Yale game should wind up the season. Undoubtedly that attitude...