Word: crawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stadium employe whose job it was to run the flags of winning countries up the highest of the three flagpoles on the stadium's peristyle was pleased by the final of the 1,500-metre race. From where he stood, watching the tiny runners crawl around the track, a bunched field thinning out on the last lap while one dark little man sprinted furiously to get in front,it was impossible to see who had won; but after the race was over, the employe received, for the first time, the signal to hoist the Italian flag...
...made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot him in the ribs. When he revives in a hospital, the colyumist is unchastened but embarrassed by his accident. Judged by his jokes and witty sayings, Ricardo Cortez is a slightly better colyumist than Douglas Fairbanks Jr., but still not very good. "Drop in some...
Some 400 million years ago a fish dug its head into the mud, began to breathe with lungs, explains Joel. Next natural development would have been for it to be able to crawl out on land, but the lungfish never got that far. The only benefit it got from its lungs was the ability to live through periods of drought. Encysted in sun-baked mud it could live on air and its own tissues for months, even for years. From the papyrus roots of Lake Victoria Joel two years prior had collected specimens of the fish, called Kamongo...
...side of the tube is a door, through which a little drum may be placed, and as the pig breathes pressure causes the drum to contract, raising and lowering a pointer which marks on a revolving smoked drum. This apparatus is rather amusing, for the guinea pig crawls into it without any encouragement, and once inside never attempts to move. When the experimenting is over, one merely points the tube toward the light and the pig will crawl...
...direction of Von Sternberg is as usual obvious because of its elusiveness. His China is unbelievably like the China we had always hoped to see; and once we have watched the Express crawl between the overhanging rafters of an ancient city, chasing foolish chickens before, it is difficult to accept a more prosaic film. To have seen Shanghai Lily looking like a caged imperial tiger as her black gown swirls about her is to have seen a figure that spoils one for lesser women...