Word: unlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bestowing the degree Baxter read the following citation: "A chemist who sought to unlock the secret of plant growth; now the leader of a more difficult and more important quest; how to advance scholarship and maintain liberty in 20th century America...
...mother plane Maia it is equipped as an Empire flying boat, has seats for 16. Fastened together the two planes, all eight engines (5,200 h.p.) roaring, take off. In command is the pilot of Maia, connected by telephone with the pilot of Mercury. On signal both pilots unlock the elaborate hooking device-Mercury soars off with its half-ton load; Maia returns to its base...
Premier Duplessis to unlock La Clarte's front door, whereupon Editor Peron can repeat La Clarté's, jibe, "the Province of Quebec is a paradise for capitalists and a hell for workers...
...Saint read his speech: ". . . the ten-year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...
Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with...