Word: undoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...siren was screaming, had received their ultimatum, a soiled paper across which was scrawled "For God's sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident, not to be considered, an irrelevant, frantic voice, begging them to think, to undo what they had done. His words fell on the deaf faces like a flurry of wind on stone...
...reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east. A puff of wind And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep by. A lover of fine typography, Yeats himself...
...polemics of the past six months. For many an analyst believed it was the Strong policy of easy money which led to the stock market's frenzied speculation. And many a bull, in Manhattan and in Chicago, damned bitterly the Federal Reserve Bank's efforts to undo, by raising the rediscount rate, the mischief it had done. Most bullish of all bulls is the Journal. Most hateful, therefore, is the present high rediscount rate...
...White. What Science has done Science can undo. A telephone carried the catastrophic news to Berlin. Back flashed the advice of War Gas Army experts: "Pump ammonia into the air. Pump water, if that's all you've got. Throw the leaking phosgene tank into the canal. Water decomposes phosgene. Give the surviving patients milk...
...early eighteenth century. Chancery had jurisdiction when there were no forms of action by which relief could be obtained at law, in respect of rights which ought to be enforced. Said King James, speaking in the Star Chamber: "Where the rigour of the law in many cases will undo a subject, then the chancery tempers the law with equity, and so mixes mercy with justice, as it preserves a man from destruction...