Word: whirls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Planetary Collisions. Colonel John Millis, retired Army engineer, expounded a new theory of planetary formation, including the proposition that collisions of large heavenly bodies shatter off fragments (such as Earth), which thereafter whirl around their coalesced parents as satellites...
...attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...
Harvard students owning automobiles are invited to join a modernization of the old-time torchlight procession which will whirl through every ward of the city of Cambridge tonight in a political demonstration for R. W. Robart, candidate for mayor of Cambridge...
...crowd on Mitchel Field, Long Island, watched a covey of 16 airplanes, some big, some small, all noisy, whirl once around the flying field and diminish until they were no more than a dash of black pepper on the horizon. The planes in that covey were the entrants in the first race of the Mitchel Field Airplane Tournament...
...Marriage Whirl. Corinne Griffith has, taken so many thousands on the barb of her attraction that it is doubtless idle to intimate that this adventure is one of the worst of photoplays. It is a story of the younger generation, married and very fond of gin. Great parties in expensive country houses and great scowls on the faces of the stern fathers. Nita Naldi, slimmer these days, is very wicked...