Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanover, N. H., Oct. 19--Captain Horton, who has been suffering for some time with a weak ankle, gave the injured member a bad twist during dummy scrimmage this afternoon, and had to retire, his place at fullback being taken by Black, a substitute who has shown great promise in his play so far this season. A star on last year's Freshman team, he took his place in the Green backfield against Yale last week when the Dartmouth backs had worked the ball within the ten yard line, and took the pigskin over for his team's only tally...
...President, often dubbed "Silent Cal" by those who do not know him, is at times talkative when he is with a friend who he knows will not put a political twist on everything he says. Bruce Barton, who agrees with Mr. Coolidge on religion and many another fundamental, was exactly the person to reveal the President to his people. He was permitted to publish, five days later, through the Associated Press, a report of the interview in which the President said...
...thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite line-ups. In other words, he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
TIME stated that cyclones spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern, due to twist imparted to enveloping air currents by Earth's axial motion (Ferrel's law). No record is discoverable of the hypothetical case posed by Subscriber Harkness. From the nature of its spin and of prevailing air currents, a cyclone usually travels away from the Equator. Should one chance to be translated across the Line it would theoretically be retarded, dissipated, replaced by a fresh one of reverse spin...
...like to see Albert Weisford out of the way, so they bellow "Communist" at him. Communist though he may have been; he keeps silent about it. He is a clever organizer rather than a demagog, a cynic rather than a blithering reform zealot. Yet on the platform he can twist the emotions of the masses with his vibrating voice, his puny, gesticulating hands, his restless pacing up and down...