Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singular negative twist of this statement made people read it again. What upright-downright politician was this, so lacking in illusions, so intellectually honest, that he would publicly admit that the voters might conceivably get along without...
...curious twist to the usual older-younger generation quarrel reveals itself here. The present upper-classmen apparently form the party of the right in the controversy on smoking; and they, in no uncertain terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic...
...much smaller, 359 were killed. Steel coaches, which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What wooden cars it owned then, it has gradually been retiring. Last year 559 went into the discard. Last week...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...
...they been alloyed with ambition, would have made his brother Henry great as well as splendid. David, possessing that ambition, strengthened it upon his brother's wisdom. He looked at the World War with the wise critical eyes of early adolescence; he watched the branches of his family twist and struggle along trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge. Then a day came when, with Dora and his mother he rode to the station, carrying a shoe box full of sandwiches...