Word: whirlpool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of His Majesty's Government against the Soviets is strong . . . but this act is that of a distracted man who jumps into a whirlpool. . . . It is the riskiest act ever taken by the Government against such a huge country as Russia...
...Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America. But immorality never...
...range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same region. A general survey of as much of the entire district as is possible will also be made...
...goes on to state that the Harvard Athletic Association in the fall of 1925 established at the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, a well-equipped department of physiotherapy, with the necessary baking machines, deep therapy lamps, diathermy, and whirlpool baths, in addition to a complete X-ray and fleuroscopic equipment with the necessary dark room. During the football seasons, frequently as many as 150 to 200 men were seen in the doctor's room daily. Many of these required no further medical treatment than advice but any injury severe enough to keep an individual from taking part in practice...
Hand on the bird That pivots over a spinning jet of air. Treading his tiny whirlpool-let my word Soften the iron synod of despair...