Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the hot and breathless night closed down 75,000 suffering animals jammed the pens which had been rebuilt after Chicago's stock yard fire two months ago. All night long the unhappy beasts lowed. Then the sun rose again. It was the dawn of the hottest day in Chicago's history: official temperature, 104°, stock yard temperature, 110°. But no one went to feed the cattle, no one gave them water, no one hurried them to the mercy of the slaughterhouse. The 800 livestock handlers of Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.- "the cowboys...
...London stage, Noel Coward, acting in his latest play-with-music, Conversation Piece, fell gravely ill, insisted on finishing his part. Afterward surgeons performed an appendectomy in what they called "the nick of time." Dodging newshawks in California Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told her breathless pursuers: "If I had charge of the Dillinger search, I would call off the police and send reporters after him?they would be sure to find...
...behind him. The last mile record (4:07.6) was set at Princeton a year ago by Jack Lovelock of Oxford. To see it broken by nearly a full second would have been enough, by itself, to make last week's track meet perfect. But ten minutes before, breathless spectators had witnessed the unexpected fall of another world mark. Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world's half-mile record two years ago, ran his race agains Charles Hornbostel of Indiana, who hai equaled Eastman's time last year. East man was away first...
...Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw...
...inch-deep incisions. Dr. Michou hoisted up his buttocks. The engineers thrust a small steel cone attached to the 250-lb. magnet into one of the incisions, switched on a 3½-h.p. current. Nothing happened. The cone was drawn out, inserted in the second incision. After one breathless minute there was a tiny click. Seven voices cried...