Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit of all was Colonel Roscoe Turner, strutting about in a fawn-colored uniform...
Sarah, the college cat, is missing. For over eight years now she has been following the Yard Police on the rounds of the University property, dropping into the night headquarters in Weld regularly each evening for a bite...
...seen five koalas. Four that lived in a chicken coop in a backyard in Melbourne and one wild one. The wild one cried and when given some leaves to eat wanted to play. I gave it a finger and it bit me as hard as a newborn lamb can bite...
...that what he had done was to try to keep His Majesty on (see p. 16). In Britain it is the simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could be in China last week no simple solution, and as usual the complex story was replete with curious characters...
...Plainsman (Paramount), one of the most expensive westerns and one of the most grown up, consciously preserves the faults and virtues characteristic of ordinary westerns. Hordes of Indians bite the dust, 1,200 genuine Montana Cheyennes having been lured by $3.50 daily pay envelopes from the comfortable inertia of WPA work. Bad characters are smeared in charcoal black, heroes and heroines arrayed in magic garments of daring and beauty, playing a game of desperate designs upon a landscape lonely, hostile and magnificent. Its technique is the technique of the chase. Through most of its turbulent length it is excitingly devised...