Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile, while the prodder writhes in the last agonies of a pricked balloon...
...Passed a bill forbidding the exportation of helium (non-inflammable balloon gas (see SCIENCE). Went to the President...
...take advice, but did so with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...
...must this time bow its head to the charges of no less an authority than Amos Alonzo Stagg, director of athletics at the University of Chicago. There is little doubt, in the opinion of Mr. Stagg, that modern youth has been allowed to grow up softer than a punctured balloon tire. He would put the blame on such Innocent appearing things as late hours, rich foods, and indulgence in other luxuries of life which he believes have combined to enervate the present generation...
Raisuli, bloated like a balloon, suffering agony from dropsy in the legs, Jay amid rich carpets and cushions on the floor of his palace stronghold in the mountains near Tazreut. Heavy fighting had been going on outside, but. now all was quiet. Suddenly, there was the trampling of many feet and into the room swept some Moorish officers of Sultan Muhammad, otherwise...