Word: uprightness
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...Outside Loop." Imagine sitting upright on top of an enormous flywheel, 2,000 feet in diameter. You are strapped to its outer rim. The wheel is in motion, whirling you forward and downward at a speed which increases from 150 miles per hour to 280 miles per hour when you are upside down, beneath it. Then you are carried upward to your original position and are safe, for this wheel will not torture you with another revolution...
Significance. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, or "Jix" in popular parlance, has the name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
George Holburn Snowden, of Bridgeport, Conn., winner of twelve Beaux Arts competitions in sculpture, had submitted a slim, upright, nude, plaster girl, "Flora," playing with her hair...
...vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were seen piled high about the scene of the last stage of the fray. The CRIMSON editors were still upright. They had maintained their dignity. Harvard had gained the victory. They quitted themselves like gentlemen...
...royal Danish palace of Amalienborg a choir of Cossacks sang last week from full hearts to a little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian...