Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instructor's imprecations were lost in the roar of the motor, but he lost no time in adjusting his belt and parachute. He climbed out and dropped...
...years. Perhaps when the nation took up the subject it was thought unnecessary to continue the study in schools. At all events, if it is true, as reported, that unofficial dry agents moved for its continuance, their pessimism must rival that of the man who were both suspenders and belt...
...ordered Leonor Fresnel Loree to explain why his railroad mergers proceedings in the Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away the conflicts between the Clayton Anti-Trust...
...harsh white light around the ringside heard the manager snarl something about "quitter." The fisticuffer, despairing, defiant, jumped to his short legs and went through the mill. Panting, pounding, suffering, he hammered the hard little man dancing a short arm's length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing...
President B. L. Belt reminded stockholders how expensive it was to introduce a new product (Old Gold cigarets) to the smoking public...