Word: thrusting
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...stand has astonished not a few of our great American dailies which have been prone to ridicule it as the result of superabundant Latin sympathy for the feelings of the "saurus", who--having since before tertiary times led a life of untrammeled prehistoric ease--is now about to be thrust among the contaminations of modern civilization. "After all" says editorial opinion, "why should the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals concern itself with the Plesiosaurus who--as his name implies--is an 'Almost-Lizzard'? May we not expect ere-long to be confronted with a Society...
...calls for thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, a New Year's Day without date, the week to begin on Monday, and would cause the day of the month always to fall on the same day of the week. Every four years, a Leap Year Day will be thrust bodily into the calendar at the end of June...
...writer opens herself to a palpable counter-thrust. If college men are not numbered among the labor agitators, the Non-Partisan Leaguers, and other active ultra-modernists, is it necessarily because they have failed to consider these new movements? Such a conclusion smugly assumes that the movements are necessarily right, and that a failure to champion them is due to sheer ignorance. It is not beyond imagination to suppose that the college student might think otherwise, and that he shuns them not so much from ignorance as form too much knowledge...
Beals and Burgess, both strong men in the regular yearling formation were not in the line-up, by Hodder easily made up for their absence both on the forward and defensive lines with steady protective work on his own ice broken by flashes of brilliant thrust at the opponents' goal...
...citizens of Massachusetts, are we going to stand by idly and see a courageous, law-respecting individual thrust out of office because he threatens to expose a few "public servants" who do not wish to see the law enforced. In closing, let me use Mr. Wilson's own words; "Our state has always been a leader in the enforcement of the law. Is the supremacy of the old Bay State on law and order to be challenged at this time by those who would abrogate a part of the constitution?" LOUIS H. BONDI...