Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delay. The Negro whines: " Mister, before God, I'm innocent. That other nigger told me he did it. I would not die with a lie in my throat." The stouter rope is found, and one end is fastened carefully about the Negro's neck. He is is thrust along the bridge. The other end of the rope is fastened to the bridge...
...youth" has been clamoring for greater self-expression and in this case it has been thrust upon him. He has insisted frequently in opposition to his professor that there is more to a college education than the required studies. The recent outbreak at Colorado College education than the required studies. The recent outbreak at Colorado College resulting in the President's resignation, where the undergraduates decorated the president's door step with a bomb and placed appropriate specimens from the zoological museum about his lawn was a case of student self-expression carried to a ridiculous extreme. In one southern...
...several delegations of the contending parties arrived in Lausanne for the second installment of the Lausanne Conference. The main issues which are to be discussed have been thrust into almost indecent obscurity by the electrifying gyrations caused by the announcement of the Chester Concessions...
...usual, the Communist leaders are attempting to build a pyramid from the top down. Instead of gradually and thoroughly developing the resources of the nation and the intelligence of the people to a point where modern inventions could be usefully applied, they intend to thrust electricity and airplanes on peasants who are terrified by a rumored collision with Jupiter. And instead of increasing their nucleus of educated men by putting their universities on a sound financial basis, they seek to spread a thin coating of information over the masses by means of isolated lectures. Meanwhile, conditions in the universities have...
Naturally, the appearance of Mr. Harding's hat in the ring was the signal for the Democrats to put a disparaging interpretation upon it. The Democratic National Committee began at once to cast about for the weakest and most plausible spot through which to thrust an opening campaign wedge. They found it in the remarks of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, considered by political experts to be the spokesman of the Eastern Republicans, and certainly one of the three highest figures in the Republican party organization...