Word: vortexes
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...fall of welcome where poetry is loved; Mr. Damon's two contributions are pleasantly and skilfully turned. Mr. Boyce's "The Trail Beyond", a dramatic story on the difficult theme of intense hate, would gain, we feel, from a simpler and more direct treatment. The effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion...
...college days Thornton first perceives these undermining forces at work; sees his classmates abandoning their first high, nebulous hopes of achievement, for some concrete form of business which will assure them wealth. And shortly after college, he is himself drawn into the menacing vortex, by a tragically mistaken marriage...
...path after he had discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes, William Earl Dodge Stokes at the vortex of a veritable whirlpool of crimes, of allegations of brazen corruption and almost unbelievable perjury, all directed at Helen Elwood Stokes, his present wife...
...cannot but give himself single-hearted to his original ambition. Often poverty compels labor, which is the surest road to success, and in every case there is a subtle influence, that of the still fervent reaction which is fast culminating that engulfs men with the resistlessness of a vortex...
...CRIMSON: - The suggestions for the formation of a university club, now being made on all side, are timely, and should meet with consideration from both students and instructors in a great college like Harvard where there is danger of a man's personality being swamped and lost in the vortex of college life, and where it is almost impossible for a student to get any personal supervision or come under the beneficial influence of an instructor's personality, such an institution would be of the highest benefit. It is safe to say that a large part of the students here...