Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thorn Sutures. When wounds are too large for the biting ants, a thorn is thrust through the two sides. A string fastened around the protruding ends draws the wound together...
Last week Senator Norris, perceiving a plot, moved to discharge the Shortridge Committee from further consideration of his measure. In parliamentary practice such a motion is the next thing to an insult to a committee's chairman, because, by its adoption, the chairman is rudely thrust aside and the measure buried in his committee may be yanked from beneath him to the Senate floor...
This spring and summer many a horse will feel the sharp thrust of a hypodermic needle; will be injected with meningitis bacilli. Thus horses will help in the development of a serum to fight a new strain of cerebrospinal meningitis which, originating among Chinese workers in California last year, is moving eastward across the country...
...remark in your article on "First Fencer" that Nadi's use of the "advance thrust" is an offensive few dare attempt. The movement may seem daring to Americans who mainly follow the French School, but it is not unusual...
Italian fencer. In fact, all Italians (and Argentines) prefer the advance thrust to the lunge, thrust of the French (and Americans, English, and Belgians). The advance thrust, also, is a favorite device of short fencers when they compete with fencers of long reach, a fact which may explain the preference of short Italians for the movement...