Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high, across a court 44 by 20 ft., procedure and purposes are similar to tennis except that every shot must be a volley. Scoring is like squash. When the momentum given it by the racquet is spent the bird does not drop like a ball but parachutes to the floor. Hence, retrieving is the most important part of the game and badminton, much easier to learn than tennis, is more taxing to play...
...fourth floor of a six-story apartment house in Manhattan's midtown East side, the beautiful naked body of a 20-year-old artist's model was found stretched dead on a bed. Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
...knuckles and the traces of skin and grey hair later found beneath her nails, she had fought her assailant. The roomer, deaf, had presumably been murdered in his sleep. The murderer had then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor [at 2:10 a.m.] I noticed the door of their flat was half open. As I came nearer it closed-slowly and very quietly. But whoever was behind it kept out of sight. It looked as though...
Cable cars look like the Toonerville Trolley, have open sides with seats facing out (which bothers women with short skirts on San Francisco's frequent gusty days). In the middle stands the gripman holding a lever like an oversized emergency brake. It goes through the floor and under the street through a slot, where it grips an endless line of steel cable an inch and a half wide moving at 8 m.p.h. When the gripman grips, the cable car moves steadily up the steepest hill, protected by three sets of brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line...
...Manhattan last week, while A. & P.'s General Counsel Caruthers Ewing paced the floor of the hearing room for three impatient hours, waiting to lay the legal foundation of a constitutional test, the Federal Trade Commission tried to find out why A. & P. thought there was any difference between asking the old 4% brokerage allowance and insisting on a 4% discount. "Perhaps it's a fine distinction," explained A. & P.'s Charles W. Parr, "but it is an important...