Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some students achieve certain courses; some have courses thrust upon them; but although many are called, few have the good fortune to be chosen for one of Professor Copeland's classes. The fame of English 12 draws so many applicants for admission to it that even competitive admission compositions fail to relieve the congestion of suitors. And as for the likewise famous English 45, the sacred precincts are even harder to enter because this course is omitted in 192-- to 192--. The result is that most undergraduates can only know Professor Copeland by his hat, coat and umbrella...
...first problem that was thrust upon it was the investigation of the Italo-Greek hullabaloo, and it may be said that on the results it achieves in settling the dispute will depend the very existence of the League as a potent factor in regulating international affairs...
...Ruhr, including all the Rhineland territory under Franco-Belgian occupation, has had thrust upon it a semi-mythical character. It is the land of unreality staging futurity. The entire world speaks of the Ruhr, not as the comparatively small industrial area in Western Germany, but as a separate territory wherein the evil potions of the world are being stirred to potency by the wicked witch of hate. And the garb of the witch is draped of many flags...
...monument, a large pillar, was erected to the memory of 117 employees of the East India Company who died from suffocation in 1756 when Surajah Dowlah, a Bengali ruler, had 147 prisoners thrust into the famous Black Hole?18 feet square...
...Railroad Labor Board took a dig at the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Samuel Rea, President of the road, made a thrust at the Railroad Labor Board. Then there was calm, if not peace, once more...