Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shortest, sessions was over. Almost unanimously, the Chamber adopted a bill to regulate the press and another to empower the Government to issue decree laws until Parliament reassembled in the Fall. Premier Mussolini announced that he would not take a vacation; and, with a sweep of his arm, the proceedings came...
...with about one-eighth of the latter's population. Hungarians, claiming that they arc disarmed within the provisions of the Treaty of Trianon, declared that the Allied Military Control Commission in Hungary, coupled with strict financial control, is sufficient guarantee to the Little Entente Powers that Hungary cannot arm and is not armed...
Stooping among his instruments in a lonely observatory at Juvisy, France, Camille Flammarion, 83, famed French astronomer, felt a chill in his side, slipped to the floor. Many hours later, footsteps rang on the stone stairway. The servant who entered found Flammarion where he had fallen. One arm was twisted under his body. His face, scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny...
...left fist, lunged at Tunney. "Ah," said 40,000 people, for Tunney wavered a moment, stepped aside, drove his right to Gibbons' jaw. The St. Paul Phantom who had never* been knocked off his feet in the prize ring, fell down on the back of his head. The arm of the referee made accents in the air. Tunney stood bulging his muscles, striving vainly to appear bestial. At the seventh strophe, Gibbons rose. A polo player at the ringside whispered to his lady: "He looks like Lazarus." Young Tunney again advanced his right fist. Gibbons twisted his torso with...
This order of appearance is highly probable especially after the most recent of the disasters which have beset Captain Hammond's team in the loss of Toulmin for the remainder of the year. Toulmin threw out his arm in practice, straining a tendon, and it is practically certain that the injured member will keep him on the bench for the rest of his last college season. The loss of a pitcher who has proved so effective during three years of University competition is an exceedingly serious handicap to a pitching staff which has shown itself to be the weakest division...