Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honolulu a blade tossed by a Siamese sword-thrower missed its target, found instead the cheek of California's famed Criminologist August Vollmer. Flying on its way, it nicked the ear of San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Chester Harvey Rowell...
Backed by Williams' millions. Wedell began building high-speed planes in 1930. Unable to read a blueprint, he built "by ear," learned by experience. Last year in one of his own ships he set the world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.). His wife set the woman's land-plane record in the same ship. Col. Roscoe Turner's West-East transcontinental record 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec.) and East-West record (12 hr. 33 min.) were both made in a Wedell ship...
...armlock. Browning broke it, retaliated with the "airplane scissors" which he learned by wrapping his legs around a flour barrel on his Indiana farm. Planning to become a professional fisticuffer when he ends his career as wrestler, Browning cuffed Londos on the nose. Londos whacked his opponent on the ear, adroitly tripped him, twisted his foot in a toe hold. Wrestling bouts continue un til one contestant or the other is too tired or too dazed to function normally. After an hour and ten minutes, Londos last week turned his back on his opponent, reached across his own shoulder...
...back. Smack!-Dictator Mussolini, now all smiles after shaking hands with effusive vigor, flung his left arm around Herr Hitler in a half embrace. Meanwhile the second German plane coasted in. and out bustled pompous Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath with a staff of high-collared experts. After ear-splitting national anthems. Mussolini linked his arm with Hitler's and led him toward a waiting motorboat, speaking German with fair fluency to a guest who speaks nothing else. As a disciple should. Chancellor Hitler drew back to let the world's No. i Fascist enter the launch...
...Choir School is largely self-supporting and Dr. Williamson tirelessly supervises its vigorous four-year courses in harmony, theory, ear-training, conducting, hymnology, Bible. The world knows of the School through Mrs. Talbott, whose generosity and energy are a match for Dr. Williamson's devotion. The hand-picked Choir has been her pet philanthropy. She has financed its visits to over 200 U. S. cities. She took the 1929 singers to Europe where they were teased for drinking their toasts in water. But their music had high praise in every capital...