Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more or less injured in play and the substitution of others for them. This situation is thought, with a good deal of justice, to call at times for judgment more objective and intelligent than the players themselves under the excitement of the moment are always able to command. To turn the supervision of this matter over to medical officers is to invite the suspicion that they are merely carrying out a coach's instructions. Nevertheless, I am sure that any one of several possible procedures would care for this case satisfactorily...
Lately Mr. Ames had given up the production of plays to turn his attention to Gilbert and Sullivan revivals. The noteworthy staging of these early musical comedies has given him a place among the leading producers of the world...
What U. S. politician could turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India...
...been paid by profits from an iceless refrigerator-Frigidaire. Last week there was talk that radio-making might someday swell the profits of , this world's-biggest-money-making corporation. For, last week, General Motors discussed with Radio Corp. plans for using some of its available manufacturing equipment to turn out sets under R. C. A. patents. Also, last week, General Motors picked up a small ($13,000,000) electrical-equipment concern, Northeast Electrical Co. of Rochester. Already, indeed, General Motors makes radios. All new Cadillacs have aerials in their bodies and, for $150 extra, Cadillac dealers will install...
...When his turn came, Mr. Churchill began : "In expressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too nattering terms in which they refer...