Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...
...person, only that he was a little lecherous, and naturally subject to a kinde of disease, which at that time they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious citizenry, making mock of bump tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy, gives up four potsful of soup
...once Pilot Burgin, confident in the staunchness of aircraft, took out an Arrow sport plane. She would not rise properly, bucked a ground bump, flipped forward and over onto her back, with trifling damage...
...straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules...
...witnesses he desired. Those witnesses who were present gave feeble testimony. Long before the Hoover arrival Tailorman Sommers had called Mr. Hoover a "nigger- lover," adding that he "ought to be killed," that "if he comes to Miami he will be killed." Cashier Callahan had boasted: "Someone should bump him off. . . . I wouldn't be afraid to do it myself if he came to Miami...