Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep San Francisco from being exploited as "the Paris of America...
...tendency of the college to thrust itself into the preparatory school life of the undergraduate-to-be is shown in another way: the decision of the commission of psychologisia to have the scholastic aptitude test available for the information of college authorities a year in advance of admission. The scholastic aptitude test assisted in the determination of the classes of 1930 and 1931 at Harvard, and has given reliable and illuminating information concerning the 15,000 candidates who have been examined during its experimental years of 1926 and 1927. Regarded no longer in the light of an experiment, the scholastic...
...Washington elm was famous as being a particularly fine specimen of a tree, a reproduction of it on the spot where it stood might be appropriate, though slightly blsarre. But the more logical feeling would be that the historical event, from association with which the tree had glory thrust upon it, is the thing chiefly to be remembered. The old elm had the dignity of a genuine souvenir, which characteristic is not likely to be present in an effigy in concrete. As a link with the past an artificial tree might be novel but scarcely compelling. If the spot...
Lewis turned the cavalry into tackles and ends, and massed his backs in a solid group behind the center. The backs bore the thrust of the head of the wedge, and the tackles and ends swept in to demolish the sides of the Quaker wedge. The play was stopped, Pennsylvania was stopped, and victory lighted on the Crimson banner again...
...years he turns them loose in the library to read anything they may fancy. Is it any wonder that the undergraduate, after two years in which he has been allowed no choice at all, is unable to make good use of the unlimited choice that is suddenly thrust upon him? Is it any wonder that his choice of these last two years, which should be the perfect crown of his whole education, is often badly balanced, purposeless and haphazard...