Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the conditions of labor unrest no more advanced today than they were at this time last year, and with the country becoming more involved with each new twist which the tide of industrial foment takes, careful analysis of the root of our inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling...
...exhibition in the Widener Room of the Widener Memorial Library a notable collection, of interest to book-lovers, of first editions and autograph manuscripts and letters of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. In the Dickens case are a second issue of the first edition of "Oliver Twist," illustrated by George Cruikshank, a presentation copy of "Pickwick Papers"; original drawings by the author and by Cruikshank for "Oliver Twist," and a contract with Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall...
...from, into a restaurant and a theatre, a fact which only visitors to Cambridge ever remark on. Technical difficulties connected with the endowment there may be; but nothing that so faithfully and ardently serves art and humanity as does the 47 Workshop can for a moment be held to twist the literal significance or to thwart the fundamental purpose of a museum. W. C. HOLBROOK...