Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Slattery, with his smile of a contemptuous faun, came two-stepping toward the weaving, crouching Shade, spectators averted their eyes. They hoped Slattery understood enough of mercy to be quick about his business. In the first round, Shade actually managed to hit him lightly, on the jaw. Slattery seemed puzzled. In the second round, there was another flurry from Shade. Slattery was obviously taking his time to get the range. In the third round, Shade crouched lower. He came out of his corner almost on his belly. From this position he started a blow which began in the resin...
Dangerous Innocence. A wicked old villain and an honest man with a past struggle sturdily for this particular heroine. It seems that, in the latter's past, was an affair with the girl's own mother. The villain is punched in the jaw and explains to the girl that he was lying all the time...
...right temple. The other, angered, beat a furious rataplan upon the ribs of Gibbons. Wearily, with the immeasurable pathos of fatigue, Gibbons lifted his left fist, lunged at Tunney. "Ah," said 40,000 people, for Tunney wavered a moment, stepped aside, drove his right to Gibbons' jaw. The St. Paul Phantom who had never* been knocked off his feet in the prize ring, fell down on the back of his head. The arm of the referee made accents in the air. Tunney stood bulging his muscles, striving vainly to appear bestial. At the seventh strophe, Gibbons rose. A polo...
...animal whose insignificant brain was fogged by the fumes of his very adequate blood. They had seen the Irishman's left hand flicker in the face of the assaulting one; they had seen him, in the sixth round, swing his right hand twice to Berlenbach's jaw, at which the latter sank to his knees, his cloudy face even cloudier. A bell had rung then, and Burly Berlenbach got to his corner and the smelling salts. But, after that, McTigue seemed very tired. His debonair red trunks were soggy and dark with sweat. Still he retreated, always faster...
...They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull recently found at Taungs, South Africa, is reported as of this general type. ¶Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws found near Heidelberg are probably about 400,000 years old. They are apelike, with manlike teeth. ¶Eoanthropus dawsoni; Fragments of two skulls, part of lower jaws and teeth were found near Piltdown, England. They are about 375,000 years old. They show a semi-human head, an apelike jaw...