Word: thread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that the Chrysler automobile was dreamed and determined by that, tall, husky, pensive resident of Oelwein among the dissembled parts of his 1905 Locomobile, which broadens the thread of romance in the Chrysler career from 1905 to 1924, when the first Chrysler car appeared...
...Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing...
Delicately sentimental like all of Miss Abbott's stories they are; gay little love stories strung upon the warm thread of the Christmas feeling, actually quite unlikely, yet fundamentally quite possible, just like fairy tales or Christmas itself. They tell of what never will happen, but what one feels might and ought...
...Bohemian in a material way, but by all civilization in a much more searching fashion. The Guild proved a medium for expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have in a few instances carried this into practice...
...lack of lustre promptly confesses an imitation to the expert. Less practiced eyes look at the thread holes. When true pearls are drilled, the skin at their poles remains flat and smooth. Imitation pearls are built around this hollow core, which therefore is considerably larger and has perceptible lips. Other proofs of true pearls: they are not easily frangible (imitations are only wax-filled glass balls); being organic, they are dulled and ultimately dissolved in vinegar's mild acetic acid (imitations dull but do not dissolve...