Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make Bright the Arrows Millay lashes out at the warring world like a lady octopus caught in a whirlpool. Giving her native impetuosity and her Vassar graduate's well-educated illusions and disillusions free play, she writes her verses mostly in three ill-assorted styles...
...precarious hold on the overturned boats, were swept away. Within half an hour of the attack the ship itself heeled over and disappeared, its captain standing at the stern, shouting: "Get into the boats and look after yourselves." Many went down with it, still more were sucked into the whirlpool. House-high waves twisted and filled the boats, swamped several. Rain and hail and wind tortured the survivors to unconsciousness and death...
Last week, in a dimly lit room in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a crowd of robust young women gathered around a bubbling sitz bath, hidebound corsets, steel braces. Some bent over a baby kicking mightily in a whirlpool bathtub (Currence Underwater Therapy Tank). The place looked like a medieval torture chamber, but the young women meant no harm: they were only members of the American Physiotherapy Association, holding their 19th annual convention...
...sounds and signs of fighting in the Artois trap died, observers knew that it was not because all the Allies had left with the last boats. Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds. Smothered under the converging German flood were the last brave thousands who died or were taken prisoner, and mountains of precious materiel. This week War Secretary Anthony Eden, speaking for the British alone, said that 80% were saved of the original B. E. F., which is now put at a low total...
...From the whirlpool of distribution arise occasional cries for a more "practical" education. That liberal education is a myth is the understandable viewpoint of students who have nibbled from all and everything and gained little more than a few points of credit. But when a professor of education propounds this view, it is a sad sign of defeatism--a sign that educators recognize their failure without mustering the courage to combat it. Few would disagree with Professor Brewer's contention that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly...