Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fresh from a 33-12 victory over Milton, the Freshman basketball team will this afternoon meet the Lawrence Academy five on the Indoor Athletic Building floor at 4.30 o'clock...
...face of a barrage of questions from the floor touching on subjects which ranged from the naval armament program to a Mississippi sales tax, Governor Earle last night consistently declined to comment on matters on which he did not feel sufficiently well-informed...
...death between two brindle American pit bulldogs-four laborers, a streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
...This Goodman is an interesting musician, isn't he?' said the professor, who was keeping time by stamping his feet on the floor. . . . 'Feed it out!' someone screamed as Gene Krupa, the drummer, began to knock the hell out of a set of cymbals. . . . 'Very interesting!' said the professor. 'The whole thing is explained in Allport's Social Psychology, chapters ten, eleven and twelve...
...across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move for latecomers who can't read their programs in the dark, but rather trying on those who are punctual. The play slowly creeps to its big scene?a revival meeting where Rocky Comfort gets religion and writhes on the floor like so many small boys trying to get as dirty as possible rolling...