Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Paulino Uzcudun. Bustling importantly, Carnera's father tried to wave the crowds away. "Let Primo alone!" he shrilled. But the crowds hung on, grateful for an occasional glimpse of the monstrous, slow-witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...
...Dunster bookshop has been replaced by Bryant Hall, and the "backyard" of Kirkland House is now complete. The completion of the House, however, has resulted in the overcrowding of the library; the forty-odd extra members now occupying the annex drift into the seat of meditation in Hicks House in the natural course of events, and its rooms, formerly comfortable, are now too well filled...
...Providence, R. I. a Persian kitten fell out of an airplane, landed in the backyard of Mary E. Makepeace, lived...
...until it was over the city, dived steeply, then leveled out at 1,000 ft. and headed for the business district. Rocking and zigzagging, it finally lunged toward the railroad station, veered at the last second and ripped into a line of telegraph wires, flopped over, fell into the backyard of an empty house. A sigh of relief breathed through San Gabriel. A minute later Pilot Morrie Gordon, who had taken the plane up from Los Angeles' Alhambra Airport for a pleasure ride, lit blandly on the edge of town. Citizens were amazed to learn that he could...
...children, Anna and Wilmarth, and by her second two more, Raymond and Robert. Mrs. Ickes had money from her father who was in the gas light fixture business. The family built a house on a six-acre lot in Winnetka and named it "Thorncroft." In the backyard Mr. Ickes who did not have to practice his profession too hard began growing dahlias. Their development into prize-winning strains became a passion with him matched only by his interest in stamp collecting. Because his wife, tall, grey-haired and not as severe as she looks in her photographs, was the active...