Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Address of the Vice President on "The Work of the Engineering Materials Laboratory, Burau of Standards, Washington, D. C." At 11 o'clock Professor N. H. Black '96 of the Physics Department will give a demonstration of new projection apparatus to be used in the physics laboratory. Professor Vannear Bush, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will then speak on "Certain Recent Developments in Machine Analysis." At 1 o'clock the meeting will adjourn to the Colonial Club, at 20 Quincy Street, where it will be the guests of the Physics Department at luncheon...
...small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...
...discussing the danger of snake bites. Dr. do Amaral said. "The most poisonous snake in the western world is the bush master of Central America but the Florida rattlesnake is almost as deadly. Now that serums have been produced to safeguard against all snakebites, people must be educated to capture the poisonous reptiles and send them to the central institute where they can be made to give up their venom. Nonpoisonous snakes should not be killed but should be left alone as they are valuable in their combat against rodents...
Moose. Gordon ("Mickey") Cochrane, the most valuable baseball player in the American League, was informed of this honor last fortnight as he departed by motor for the Miramichi woods, New Brunswick, in the company of Eddie Collins, Joe Bush, Sam Jones, Benny Bengough, and Walter Huntzinger, all famed ballplayers. They were going to shoot moose...
...talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces...