Word: fro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very unsatanic friend, who nevertheless resembled Job's tempter in that he had done much going to and fro upon the earth, once described to me an extraordinary scene witnessed while he was sojourning in a distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish...
Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer: "Last week, after undressing in an ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
...most treacherous footing imaginable. Over this our camels slipped and floundered desperately, while Hamida rasped furious curses in mixed French and Arabic and lashed the faltering baggage camels. Finally, one of these missed his footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving madly to and fro. We couldn't stop, for our would-be visitors were now only a few hundred yards behind, but, looking back a moment later, I saw the poor brute get to its feet and lumber along after...
Creak, creak went their rubbers. And the brief cases at their sides swung to and fro, to and fro not unlike the movement of dromedaries--but that is another story. Three secton men, marching toward the house of a Cambridge lady on Christmas--was it Christmas--Eve...Surely that has nothing to link it with fable or fancy or even myth...
...went to Washington for the first international tuberculosis conference held in the U. S. (The second took place last month; TIME, Oct. 18.) Since then he has been whipping his mind to and fro in an effort to find some cause for cancer. Once he thought that this disease was caused by a germ because he found the same germ in cockroaches and cancerous rats that ambled about a Copenhagen sugar refinery. He has modified his views since then...