Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee room there is generally a regular system of note passing, as reporters send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder is dressy, hard...
...which to lose, baseball experts, forgetful as usual, unanimously picked them to win. With shocking disregard for rudimentary baseball amenities, Polo Grounds ground-keepers set about enlarging the runways in the stands for World Series crowds. The Giant's pitching staff, previously impaired when Freddy Fitzsimmons broke his elbow fortnight ago, was promptly diminished to the danger point when Rookie Clydell Castleman, who had won eight games, lost two, broke his hand in batting practice. One major reason for the Giants' success so far this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid, blond centre...
...fastest time ever recorded for the four-mile course which runs past Krum Elbow and Hyde Park, home of President Roosevelt, and under the two bridges, was California's 18:35 4/5 in 1928. The same crew, which beat Columbia in this race by less than a boat length, went on to win an Olympic victory. A similar record although not in time, was hung up by the Golden Bears of 1923. California also won in 1934, following the depression lapse...
Seven crews, Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Navy, Washington and California, will face the starter a gun above Krum Elbow. A few days the race they will be assigned to their lanes, beginning with the treasured the first from the bank. But good crews in the outside lane have been known...
...gold pieces from the Cocle graves include jewelry, masks, ear rings, helmets, breast ornaments, and plaques. Also in these graves were found gold breastplates embossed with mythological monsters, gold cuffs running in sheets from wrist to elbow, and complex castings of strange anthropomorphic gods...