Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ashore, thousands tried to catch the emerald and diamond ring on Cardinal Bonzano's hand-to get grace thereby. The police permitted a few to kiss the ring...
...calculations, of supposedly important facts (if we know or have an idea of what the instructor likes): charred table-edges from forgotten cigarettes, a blue haze of tobacco smoke, heeled butts crowding the corners. Visions of the instructor who faithfully peruses his text in order that he may find catch questions (we imagine) and matters of no import, so that he may smile lightly when he sees the surprised visages of his students the following morning. Examination week--thank the powers that it comes in its intensity but once in a semester...
...crowd of 75,000 persons, ranked along Philadelphia streets, stood on tiptoes and strained eyes to catch a glimpse of a 38-year-old typesetter running along the pavement. He had run 26 miles and more that day, and had beaten by long margin a field of 62 other road-pounders. He was winning the cruelest of all races, wherein strong heart and mickle courage are the fundamental prerequisites -the Marathon. And trailing behind the winner Clarence De Mar jogged blister-footed Olympic champion Albin Stenroos, Finn, who led De Mar by two places in the 1924 competitions- on that...
Meanwhile, 50,000 eager sightseers had rushed to catch a phrase from three distinguished speakers: Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia, "a visualization of the progress of the world"; Secretary of State Kellogg, "exploitation of our potentialities"; Secretary of Commerce Hoover, "moral and spiritual awakening . . . maintain our position in the world...
...native Holland, and in the U. S.,* was prevailed upon last week to talk commercial flying. He said some revealing things. He said that France is the best equipped nation in the world, at this point, for turning out flying machinery, but that the U. S. will soon catch her up. He said that Germany, though restricted in plane manufacturing by the Treaty of Versailles, has established many a big factory outside her boundaries, and is "without equal" for training efficient civilian pilots at present. He said, after having brought up to date his firsthand knowledge of European airways, that...