Word: twists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That human divergence causes no inconvenience when a person looks at distant objects. When he looks at close objects for long periods he forces his eyes to twist towards each other and so strains their muscles. Then he has myopia; then he is nearsighted. To prevent the affliction, Dr. Wiseman recommended the use of prism glasses...
Last week the phrase received a new twist: Mustafa Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish Republic, announced his intention of delivering, on October 15, 16, 17, 18, a 400,000-word* speech over the radio reviewing in detail the history of the Nationalist government...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...
...diamond value, a search might profitably be conducted through the pawnshops. If the infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been the work of highly skilled international crooks, for disposition of Metropolitan art treasures is of even greater difficulty than their theft. A fortunate twist was given the case, when two frames were found in two lower East Side pawnshops, where they had been deposited in exchange for $75 each. The other four are still missing, as are, unfortunately, the portraits themselves...
...notice Mr. Wallen says that I was busily engaged in chewing Granger Twist tobacco. I will admit that I was chewing tobacco, but it was not Granger Twist and Mr. Wallen was as near correct about most of the things that he says I said as he was about the kind of tobacco that he said I was chewing...