Word: hollowing
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...virtually no slaves rose up. Instead Col. Robert E. Lee, then of the U. S. Army, marched up and recaptured the arsenal. Invested to the last with the dignity of intense conviction, John Brown was hanged in a hollow square of 1,500 infantry. His gallows-words were: "I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose...
Study of a new type of construction?hollow metal body with curved side extensions replacing distinct wings?has led German engineers to predict ships of 150 tons, 20,000 tons...
...oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give one lung such a rest, leaving the other to breathe for both. The surgeon sticks a hollow needle into the pleural cavity of the tubercular lung and lets some air, oxygen or nitrogen flow in. The lung collapses. He increases the pressure of the gas against the flaccid lung. This squeezes tubercular secretions out into the windpipe, like toothpaste out of a tube; and the patient expectorates...
...relay race Maryland won in hollow fashion from the Crimson quartet. For three-quarters of the mile distance the Harvard runners held their own with the southerners, but on the last lap, while running a nip-and-tuck race and making a strong bid for victory, O'Neil, the Crimson anchor man, tripped and fell. The fourth Maryland flier aped on to an easy...
...imagined, our day had been a bit lively, so we pitched camp early in a little hollow and attempted to shake a bit of dust from our effects. We were quite ready for peace and quiet in large doses, but one of our camels commenced to gargle in a particularly painful manner. To me is was nothing but an unpleasant noise, but the way that "Ham and" and Eddie dove for that pile of rifles was a caution! It was now dark and the cook fire was burning brightly; so Eddie stopped just long enough to kick dirt...