Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Auchinloss, but it is not a great voice. Who knows but that sufficient freedom given her in her earlier year might not have allowed it to develop? At any rate, Lilly decides that her daughter should have none of the cramping "Chinese shoes" into which she was thrust slue and body the day she was born. In telling of Lilly's fight to gain for her daughter what she could never have, Miss Hurst has an excellent opportunity for interesting narrative, strong characterization, and vivid portrayal of conditions as they are which she does not fail to grasp...
...enormous army and navy that it clearly does not want and will continue to reject. It is almost impossible to believe that the Administration is so rapt with the dreams of the past that it is incapable of discerning "the signs of the times"--signs which have been repeatedly thrust upon its attention. Rather more is it probable that Mr. Wilson and his coadjutors are attempting, in a last-minute scramble, to make the country pay, in armaments, for its refusal to join the Wilsonian League of Nations, or else, by threats of the ever increasing military and naval debts...
...their families; and again with the impassioned appeals of labor agitators before the quarrelling workers, half-erased from starvation and exposure Nothing is settled except that the fortune of the weak and defenceless creates a stronger human appeal than that of the powerful. The extremists on both sides are thrust aside and a compromise is affected...
...often that the optimism of youth turns to dire forebodings about the future, but there are times when such thoughts are thrust forcibly upon us. The present case in point is the possibility of a fire in the Yard--a possibility suggested by the frequency of smaller blazes in Cambridge since last fall, especially those in Claverly and Bertram Halls. Fortunately no great damage has yet been done, nor any lives endangered. But could the same be said if a fire were to break out in Sever or in Harvard...
...understand, aims to make the students work, while the atmosphere of Oxford is merely to have a nice time and learning is very little forced on the men who go there. This Oxford idea, you know is a great deal better than having a lot of priggish science thrust on one. But after all, Oxford isn't a university; it is simply the playground for the English gentry...