Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under "Meteorology" in Volume XVIII [Encyclopaedia Brittanica], page 284, at the end of the second column in referring to cyclones, I find: "The term cyclone among meteorologists . . . is equivalent to the older usage of whirlwind, and it is unfortunate that misunderstandings often arise because local usages in America apply the word cyclone to what has for centuries been called a tornado...
Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...
...made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser $37,000. It is planned to build 100 of these planes forthwith. After these are sold the price may drop...
From the time the royal party crossed the Massachusetts state line a whirlwind tour has been in order. The morning's program is typical of the general daily procedure since the Crown Prince and Princess arrived in this country...
...Freshman game the Blue started out with a whirlwind attack, which netted four goals in the first period. Varden started the scoring for Yale when, shortly after the opening whistle, he broke through the Crimson defense, and slipped the ball into...