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Word: arming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officious arm of the law immediately appeared and declared that the men were drunk, and would have to clear out. Manager Osborne, upon his arrival, spoke to the manager of the theatre, Mr. A. M. Sheehan, while the football squad quietly awaited the outcome of the conclave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agent and Police Wet-Blanket Football Theatre Party--"Too Drunk to Talk to" Is Charge of Tremont Official | 11/19/1925 | See Source »

...Thaw's hand began to move steadily, cautiously toward his hip pocket. A woman at a nearby table caught a cry to her lips; a fat man upset his drinking glass. Editor Payne sat quiet, tense. In the emergency, his courage was supreme. The slayer's arm moved. He drew from his pocket a handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Back | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...bedside of one Mae Wahl, an anemic patient at the Greenpoint Hospital, L. I., a husky blood-seller was conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transfuser | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...Association's annual convention last week discussed the use of radio communication in their business. It will soon be introduced on freight and passenger trains to establish constant communication between the conductor and brakemen, and the engineer. The present methods are steam valve signals (on passenger trains), and arm-waving from freight cabooses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Train Control | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...beat) one of them, lifted weights (a corresponding increase in Margery's weight being observed when he did so), rang a bell-and disappeared when the lights went up. During his "presence," the observers beheld strange luminosities about the medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly arm and calling for lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Again Margery | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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