Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pounded barefoot on the floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer and for 15 minutes stamped their feet, bowed low, bent back, sowed grain...
...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
...Harlem: "If white candidates come nosing around your district and trying to spend money for votes, take their money and beat them too. I wish some [white] people would try to spend money in my district. We'd take every cent they had and then send them to the dry cleaners...
...public health, has been eminent in U. S. physiology for more than a generation. Among his fundamental contributions are origin of the red corpuscles of the blood, degeneration and regeneration of the nerve fibres, mechanism of sleep, relation of the inorganic salts of the blood to the heart beat, coagulation of blood, proteins of blood serum...
Checkerman Long, 24-year-old telegraph clerk, has long been a checker prodigy. At 15 he watched a national tournament knowingly, critically. Irritated, national contenders challenged him to play. He beat them. Two years later he won the U. S. Championship. Two years ago he was on a team which defeated English invaders. Lacking competition in Toledo, he plays by mail with far-off experts. Once he had a postal game with an Australian which lasted more than a year, ended in a draw...