Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
Last week, Panama decided to start collecting, by hook or crook. Through the authoritative newspaper El Nuevo Diaro, President Juan Demostenes Arosemena let it be known that on a $3,500,000 loan floated in the U. S. in 1923, Panama would fail to make the $62,000 payment due this week...
What Powys has to say, says Brooks, is that only a man who has had to fight for existence knows how to prize it. He is like a hare that has escaped the hunter, or a fish that has eluded the hook, and now exults unquestioningly in "the sun soaked earth and wind and water." This is his powerful and moving answer to the personal despair of post-War writers...
...chemical trucks and two hook and ladders rushed to the scene led by the chief's car, but there was not enough to worry the active firemen for most of then packed up and went home, leaving a solo truck to attend to the fire...
Hits by Captain Ulysses Lupien and Dick Grondahl together with Bob Gannett's base on balls and a double steal accounted for the Crimson's two tallies in the fifth frame. Otherwise the Varsity failed to fathom Lefty Roper's deceptive hook. The Summary: ab r h po a e Gannett cf 4 1 0 4 0 0 Johns ss 4 0 0 2 3 0 Lupien 1b 4 0 0 10 0 0 Grondahl 3b 4 1 0 1 1 2 Saltz 1b 2 0 1 1 0 0 Hoye rf 4 0 0 3 0 0 Doyle...