Word: warns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through to the prisoners. Hard rock smashed the drill-bits. The mine pump failed. It was 153 hours (six days...
...take daily readings from a bolometer capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation. His daily telegrams to Washington will be studied by long-range weather-forecasters, who, working on the theory that fluctuations in solar heat occasion all terrestrial weather disturbances, will warn farmers, mariners, aeronauts and the parent planning his child's picnic, of coming storms...
...want to warn you not to expect too much. You remember when we were told by some American missionaries that we and our country were 'full of sins and how 'good Christian nation and ideal country America is'? Well, that's all bunk, I tell you. They are just the same human beings as we are, and not all the people go to church either, as you and I dreamed. I don't know why I was so dumb in believing every thing that those God's messengers told us without considering general human nature whatsoever...
...When foreign students go out with American girls, we and they are closely watched, and often the authorities are kind enough to warn us and them, in some cases, because their acquaintances 'may cause an unhappy marriage.' Seems to me, they interpret the acquaintances of men and women in terms of intermarriage and they don't give any ground for intellectual comradeship...
Undergraduate papers fall into two groups: the bulletin boards and the journals of opinion. The bulletin boards are harmless sheets packed full of college gossip. Criticism of the University is seldom ventured. The editorials exhort the students to Back the Team, warn freshmen of the evil consequences of Walking on the Grass, and advise the use of Better English...