Word: armed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shoals continued with acrimony. An elephantine figure rose from the back row of desks on the Democratic side. The Chair recognized him. Standing like a colossus above his fellows, he first declared that he supported the bill of his colleague, Mr. Underwood. Then, with a gesture of his great arm, he opened the floodgates of his eloquence. All the dammed up speech of ten silent days burst forth, inundated the chamber. For two hours it flowed over the spillway of his golden tongue; when it ceased, his hearers shook their heads: "Ah, yes, there's nothing the matter with...
...made a subject of special research at the Wilmer Institute for Diseases of the Eye, now being built by the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, Baltimore, Md. Said Dr. John McMullen, trachoma expert: "It is a dreadful disease. I saw a girl once who had kept her arm over her eye for 18 years-so long that it was rigid in this position, and could not be moved...
John Jay Chapman, graduate of Harvard, resident of Manhattan, author and publicist, is a man of intensity, energy. What he believes, he believes passionately. His right arm is off at the elbow. Few have the exact reasons for this, but it is commonly believed that, for having struck a friend (or teacher), Mr. Chapman did penance by thrusting his right arm into a blazing furnace...
...most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minne- sota 20, Illinois 7. Who writes this "stuff" for you? If this is a specimen of his sport news, better eliminate...
Vance, called "Dazzy" from the dazzling velocity of his pitches, was acquired by the New York "Yankees" in 1917 for a pittance paid a very minor league team. His arm, developed in boyhood by farmwork in Nebraska, went bad; he was released. In 1920, the arm recovered. In the past season, Vance won 28 games, lost but 6, struck out 262 batters. The "most valuable" vote brought him $1,000 from the National League...