Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These times have seen a peak of economic emphasis. It has not only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While...
...wings. They are used only to stabilize and control it, as it ascends from or returns to the earth. ... It flies not by means of a propeller, but by a device which sucks in the air and then expels it explosively with a force much greater than the 'wind' created by a propeller. . . . Thus there is no 'motor,' no 'engine,' only the device which creates by explosive means a continuous thrust...
...have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead, I have wished you blackened by a wind of flame, But let me wish for each of you instead That he may live to cringe at his own name...
...beard and a preposterous red coat, on a street corner, ringing a small bell. By performing this simple act for a certain number of hours every day he earned enough money for food and bed. Why it should give joy to anyone to see him standing in the cold wind tinkling a dinner clapper was more than Mr. Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good deal of attention from passing children, which was disagreeable to him. One morning last...
...Gulf of Guinea all one to him in the line of trade. Profoundly pious he peddled Medford rum or flour with the equally clear conscience of the times. Regretfully we leave him at 80, a ruddy-cheeked old man, on a little farm of his own; "the wind has got around to the south," as he returns from a visit to the young orchard...