Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlo were enviously agog, last week, at the luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out upon the dance floor in the arms of one Earl Leslie...
...their winter recreation. Their interest was so keen, and the sport was so well founded that this year it has gained official recognition. There will be two sections meeting at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the apparatus section off the main floor of Hemenway gymnasium. At first the sections will be divided up merely in respect to numbers, but as soon as any classification can be made, one group will be composed of advanced and one of elementary tumblers...
...young English scientific worker, one R. H. Tate of West Hartlepool, Durham, last week summoned witnesses into his laboratory's secrecy, showed them a sheet of aluminum-like metal on the floor, held a similar piece in the air above the other, removed his hands. The upper piece remained poised in the air. Obviously gravity was being foiled. But how, the young man would not explain...
...used to take care of the four furnaces in Massachusetts hall when there was only one room on the first floor. A half-hour before examination time, students would come in there and open all the windows. I kept the furnaces going full tilt to keep the building warm, but with the windows open it would get cold as a barn. Then when the professor came in, the students would complain the building was not heated enough, and was too cold for an examination. Generally they were excused and the exam postponed to another...
Practically all the floor seats had been sold by yesterday afternoon, and the balconies will be thrown open free to the public...