Word: whirlings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long hang heavy there. Complacent bovines were once, and perhaps still may be allowed to roam gracefully through the greensward, and unmolested give their milk for Harvard, but birds and even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet the ill-aimed shots of citified big game hunters; allowed no longer like the cows to give forth their flowing liquid...
When he gets down to post-Civil War times, which even milder historians characterize as financially scandalous, McConaughy's progress becomes a dervish-whirl in a mist of vituperative facts. An index of his malefactors would read like the Social Register. Too over-violent throughout to be persuasive, Who Rules America? chokes over its own too-choleric mixture of fact and fanaticism...
Indignant snorts on behalf of two amateur astronomers went up in London and in Potsdam as the ringed planet Saturn last week placidly continued to whirl in & out of Earthling's sight the great spot which last fortnight erupted on its protuberant belly (TIME, Aug. 14). Washington's Naval Observatory, their snorts made it appear, had not kept the spot under observation for a seemly length of time after Astronomer John Edwin Willis sighted it. The British Astronomical Association said that one Will Hay, music-hall comedian and amateur stargazer, had spotted the spot 26 hours before Astronomer...
...company or that planned to enter the whiskey business, reap fat profits from the fact that Americans are proverbially a whiskey-drinking people. And the stockmarket soared to New Deal highs. Standard Brands lately announced that it might make gin as of old and its stock was given a whirl. Commercial Solvents and U. S. Industrial Alcohol are definitely entering the whiskey business.* So all the chemicals were given a whirl. Other chemical companies will probably enter the field not as whiskey makers but as distillers of spirits for blending purposes. For whiskey is not made...
...letter to his daughter, he wrote: "I do not know how to turn. I have been thinking so much day and night-all these weeks, months and years, my head is in a whirl and I crave rest-just rest, and there is only one place where it is to be found. . . . But I want you to know, dear Teta, that regardless of any charges by bank officials, not one cent has ever been taken by me in any way. On the contrary, all I have saved, my life savings for mother and you, have gone into the bank...