Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back of the fauces (narrow, rear part of mouth) is the pharynx. Into the pharynx enter (from above) the nostrils and eustachian tubes. From below enter (in front) the larynx (top part of the trachea, or breathing tube), and (in back) the esophagus or food tube. In eating or drinking the epiglottis, a saddle-shaped piece of cartilage at the root of the tongue, flaps down to cover the larynx and windpipe. The term "throat" includes fauces and pharynx; the term "gullet" includes pharynx and esophagus.† 5,685 U. S. cases reported last week...
...circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does not ordinarily waste itself on the pit floor. When steel-cooks know their business, the brew from the kettle furnace...
Kansas City's music boom has burst. The chubby little girl with .the high, bright voice whose sensational opera debut three years ago made the country Kansas City-conscious, decided last week to go back to the farm, to sing no more. Encouraged by the mother who had chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact...
Unheeded in the roar, buried in the shuffle, music critics bent uneasily over their typewriters. Lost in back pages were the reviews, flashing such signals as "immature talent" . . . "further training" . . . "promise." Three years later nothing had happened to alter those words...
...Ashmont, Mass., Mrs. Peter Rabbit of No. 91 Florida Street saw a barking Irish terrier jump at her infant daughter in the back yard. She ran to the rescue, retreated before the dog, called Mr. Rabbit. He charged, retreated, called the police. One policeman, two wagons with experts from the Animal Rescue League, and 1,500 neighbors finally captured the terrier in the Rabbit bathroom. None of the Rabbit family was hurt...