Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon rode high and bright over Turkey one night last week as Islam downed its evening meal. The peasants in the little villages finished their last prostrations toward Mecca, and went out for a breath of the sharp night. Suddenly someone bit a piece out of the moon. The peasants knew instantly what that meant...
...reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Written primarily of and for the manure set, Just Hunting is not to be mentioned in the same breath with Siegfried Sassoon's masterly Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, but even to readers who have never seen the world from the vantage of horseback it presents an easily comprehended view...
Hoffman. Having caught their breath and tired of beating the dead horse of U. S. lawlessness, U. S. editors began looking for a personal Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized...
Purcell would invite to a game those who scoff at badminton as a "non" sport. "I could have them flat on their backs and gasping for breath in a few minutes," he exclaimed. He feels, however, that this attitude will soon be gone, and the game will be as popular here as it is in Canada and England...
...Journal of the American Medical Association the young researchers announced excellent results with a combination of 10% carbon dioxide and 90% oxygen, administered through an ordinary ether mask. Not for plain disagreeable drunks is their treatment, emphasized the doctors, but only for desperate drunks with slow, jerky breath, faint pulse, dilated pupils, cold bluish skin...