Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Years ago, in the cliff-perched village of Sciacca on the island of Sicily, the boy Bellanca watched ships cut the sea and kites cut the air. There was a similarity, he thought. He made his kite fly horizontally, like a glider. His imagination roamed-"a little fan in front, and I could fancy it there flying by itself...
Slowly, like an irresistible maritime creature, the Yale boat moved up almost on even terms with Harvard. Suddenly, No. 6 in the Yale boat "caught a crab" (cut the water at the wrong angle, upsetting the rhythm of the crew...
...Boston newspaper, dated June 20, 1857, there appeared the story of one of the first crew races on the Charles. Above the story there was a cut, "by our artist . . . . who made the drawing especially for us", which is rather fully described in the article from which extracts follow...
...results of a thorough investigation of these specimens, too full to set down here, are clear-cut and conclusive, and show beyond question a higher birth-rate, marrage rate, and fecundity-rate, among the more successful classes, which points to numerical triumph over the less successful ones in the matter of reproduction. Groups one and two produce roughly on the average of twice s many children as Groups your and five...
...muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...