Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...block of seats at all their games. A temperamental team, which in streaks this season has been the best in the game, the Canadiens suddenly recovered their touch. Johnny Gagnon put the first goal through in the first period. In the second, Detroit's goalie Norman Smith, whose arm had been temporarily numbed during a scramble in the first period, signaled for a substitute and young Jimmy Franks skated out to take his place. Franks was good but not quite good enough, after his teammates had tied the score, to turn back the shot that Babe Siebert, the Canadiens...
When a Mensendiecker raises his right hand in a stiff-armed salute, he puts his weight on his right foot and thrusts his left leg backward. The left leg thus counterbalances the upraised right arm. Because Nazis and Fascists stand with their feet together when they salute, they strain themselves (according to Mensendieck theory) and are bound to have unesthetic legs and rumps...
...stoop. Start from the foot-forward, scissors position. Bend one knee until it almost touches the floor. Bend the other knee less. To pick up anything use the hand on the side of the lower knee, simultaneously swinging the other arm to the rear for counterbalance...
...wide diversity of material which is lending itself to public discussion. As an illustration, the ten students tonight will speak on subjects ranging from "The Supreme Court Tribunal" to "Hector's Farewell to Andromache," and they will speak because they have something important to say, not for mere theatrical arm-waving. Each one chosen for better-than-average mastery of delivery, these ten, in their struggle for the prizes, are raising their voices in the cause for better speaking, furnishing impetus to a regenerated art. The trend towards original writing and simplified delivery at long last seems under way. Given...
...Treasury. Within a year, to the vast consternation of his fellow Eastern bankers, Mr. Eccles was head of the Federal Reserve Board and writing his novel notions into the law of the land. He was not only committed to a strong central banking authority which would be an arm of the Government; what was worse in eyes of orthodox bankers, he was thoroughly sold on the idea of a country spending its way out of Depression...