Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which culminated in Aaron Sapiro's suit on Mr. Ford for $1,000,000. Immense publicity was thrust on the magazine. The vigor of its warcries caused its banishment from public libraries in Portland, Me., Paterson, N. J., St. Louis, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati. Chicago and Columbus, 0., forbid its newsboys to cry The Dearborn Independent...
...unrestrained. Behind this experiment lies the theory that U. S. education is too tightly hemmed in with supervision. Education is obtained by force feeding; not sought because minds are hungry. Harvard believes a man will learn more by seeking learning; than by sitting on a bench and having learning thrust upon him; believes that the desire to know is stronger than the fear of ignorance. Said Dean A. C. Hanford: "Present educational methods are comparatively satisfactory, but they also lack much of the force which springs from methods more than satisfactory. "A small group will perhaps be carried away...
...offering the Vagabond to its readers the CRIMSON has been entirely without any definite statistics as to the popular approval of the plan. Certain things--the Vagabond among them--must be thrust upon the public in the belief that the contribution is welcome or at least not unworthy of consumption. Therefore it is gratifying to learn the attitude of other colleges and universities, since thus is the Vagabond furnished with the sole concrete justification of his existence. If others offer him commendations he is partially assured that as a prophet he is not entirely without honor in his own country...
Confronting the aimed and calculated thrusts of a logician, the Reverend John Roach Straton, D. D., salient fundamentalist and divine, went down to defeat at the hands of Professor R. C. Givler, Ph.D. '14, of the Department of Psychology at Tufts College, in a verbal duel staged last night in the Living Room of the Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure...