Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments. Then the station master gave in, and the train went on to Dagenham East with the rebels waving their bowlers and umbrellas in triumph...
...upcoming contest are somewhat uncertain. George C. Carrion '99, dean of Boston sportswriters, is on record as predicting "Harvard by at least a hundred points," but Crimson coach MacPurty stated yesterday "My form sheet shows Chicago by 26. I don't see how we could possibly win unless we used assistant coaches Courtney and Rittenberg...
...unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate in the direction of the force . . . When the engine burns out, the rocket continues upward under the control of Newton's first law: . . . A body in motion continues to move at constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. As it rises, it slows and curves because an unbalanced force, the earth's gravitation, keeps pulling at it in obedience to Newton's law of gravity: Each particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional...
...stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words, what the weighty issue added up to was a catalogue of who is solvent...
Marry. Is it possible? Oh no, I won't believe it. I won't let myself believe it. Don't mock me, I have been mocked so often. Can you mean it? You have such kind eyes. Don't say it unless you mean it. It is too good...