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Costs have whirled out of control across higher education, while unscrupulous for-profit schools in particular have made a killing overcharging millions of working-class students for possibly worthless degrees.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2014

Others are convinced that the rolling Gemini would have whirled Scott around in space at the end of his 75-ft. tether, eventually slamming him against the spacecraft and probably causing fatal injuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Around these facts tens of thousands of words of hot South Carolinian dispute have whirled ever since.�ED.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have whirled about the White House since he released edited transcripts of 46 tape-recorded Watergate conversations with his aides.

From Time Magazine Archive

The time forces have utilised the man as their pivot, he has served for the axis round which have whirled the energies which Nature employed at the moment.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward