Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venizelos freed the island of Crete, his birthplace, from Turkish dominion and brought it under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...
...Consequently attempts to thrust Christianity on us cannot fail but breed discord, ill-feeling and strife...
...description of the Old American type thus evolved is quite unlike the European and comic-sheet conception of a thrust-jawed, loud-voiced, long-skulled Nordic "American." The Old American is not a Nordic type, in the first place. He retains the physical characteristics of his British ancestors, who were just as near an Alpine type as a Nordic.* He is mesocephalic (medium-skulled, between "long" and "round" or "short." He is tallest of all the large groups of white men. His hair is medium in color, rarely bright blond in adults, almost never black. His eyes tend...
...Student discussions and liberal clubs have restrictions thrust upon them. Is not this a land of free speech? Can a man call the stifling of Corliss Lamont's endeavors at the Harvard Union the pursuance of the policy of liberty of speech...
...very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...