Word: corkscrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After the gas was blown out and the pig removed, opinions remained divided. Most of the newspapermen spectators professed themselves horrified. Queasy Warden Court Smith confessed that he had turned his eyes away. But W. H. Rockingham of the State Department of Architecture...
Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...
Also on Sunday, at Laconia, New Hampshire, the Crimson will try for its fourth championship in the Third Class races over the Corkscrew trail. Fred Bigelow, Sidney Cobb, Ivan Korbel, Tom Motley, Edward Osgood, Dick Preston, Ellis Sard, Strafford Wentworth, and Lee Whitney are among those entered...
...Premier Pierre Laval of France had undertaken to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris' Oeuvre and her group, some of whom have recently been threatened with discharge by their editors for corkscrew reporting, were busy making headlines: "PEACE PLAN FACES TROUBLE IN GENEVA," "FEAR OF PROPOSAL FADES," and then as the text became public, "DETAILS AMAZE GENEVA," "PEACE PLAN HELD DOOMED...
...transmitter sends a circularly-polarized or "corkscrew" wave which can be spun clockwise or counterclockwise as it moves through space. The set also transmits the ordinary type of radio wave...