Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
...newly created Detroit archdiocese, fifth largest of the 17 in the U. S. (TIME, June 14). His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to shake his hand...
...Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...other hand, if Dr. Corbit waited for Mary Bocassini to die, the only way to deliver the baby would still be by Cesarean section. This introduced a problem in Common Law. Cutting her body post mortem might be construed as an autopsy. And Common Law forbids autopsy without the consent of the nearest surviving kin. Her husband objected...