Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When they first married, Inventor Edison, then a telegrapher, taught his wife the Morse code. Now on her deaf husband's hand Mrs. Edison transmits unheard conversation by tapping dots and dashes...
Melodramatic, Martyred, Myopic and Monkeylike was Prosecution Lawyer John G. Carpenter. He held Widow Aderholt's hand, knelt before the jury, lay down on the floor and writhed (acting out Aderholt's death). He lost his boutonniere, got another, lost that too. He shouted at the jury: "Men. do your duty; do your duty, men, and in the name of God and justice render a verdict that will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section...
...course, the Vagabond, is first and last a student, free lance though he may be. The point today is a little change of scene. From the anthropology lecture halls and laboratories with their pieces of chipped flint out into the open. A little anthropology at first hand, a field trip, the Indian in life...
...Gray team, with their blue prints in hand, ran through the various Harvard plays, with the varsity teams on the defense. Coach Cannell is very skeptical about the ability of his team to stop such an attack, as they have not as yet met any team that uses such an assortment of passes as Harvard has been reported to have...
...Student Employment Office, which recently took over the management of the concessions on Soldiers Field, faced the Army game with but little actual knowledge of how much food and drink a big game crowd could consume. The senior partners on the other hand had had considerable experience along these general lines in handling the major contests of last year, and for some reason thought they knew what ought to be procured. In a huddle with the Employment Office potentates most of the difficult problems were patched up, but on the question of sandwiches the opposite camps struck an impasse. Both...