Word: armful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope this exhibition will rouse the people of this country!" Next day King Edward, with three newspapers under his arm and accompanied by the Duke of York, took a train at Euston Station for Balmoral, the Royal Scottish Seat, where he will shoot. To the astonishment of his Scottish deerstalking guide who found a fine stag for His Majesty this week, the King at the crucial moment dropped his gun, whipped out his new German miniature camera, snapped the stag...
...whole Far East, the Speech of matronly Wilhelmina touched tidily upon the new defenses for the Netherlands Indies now being invested in by Her Majesty's Government. By 1040 the Netherlands Indies air force is to be completely reorganized with fast bombers and seaplanes as the main defense arm in addition to twelve new destroyers and 18 new submarines to give Japanese war boats warm receptions...
...Class of '29", a grim catalogue of the trials and terrors awaiting today's, or perhaps yesterday's, college graduate, is being presented at the Repertory Theatre by the Federal Theatre, an arm of the Works Progress Administration...
...little garden on the Avenue de l'Observatoire. He stood without a blindfold and told the soldiers to aim at his heart. Three of the firing squad were good shots and put three bullets through his chest, three more pierced his skull and one hit his arm. His body, following the usual custom was allowed to remain as it lay for 15 minutes. Many of his friends saw it and the representative of the military governor of Paris made the physical examination and reported back that the tribunal's order had been carried...
Shrinking Drinks. To demonstrate how rapidly capillaries react to heat and cold. Dr. Fred Bennett Moor of Los Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging...