Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white runner, George Simpson of Ohio, was in front. A yard behind him pounded Tolan. Behind Tolan was an Argentine, Carlos Bianchi-Luti, a stride ahead of Metcalfe. Tolan's horn-rimmed glasses were held on by white adhesive tape. He had a great white bandage at his left knee to keep it warm. He chewed gum as his short legs hammered the track like black drumsticks. At the finish he was first by 2 yd., with Simpson second, Metcalfe third, Arthur Jonath of Germany fourth, in world's record time?...
...Nakashima lives & talks goldfish 51 weeks a year. During the other week he watches the World Series baseball games, cheers diffidently for St. Louis when St. Louis is represented. He is in his late 30's. At work he wears rubber knee boots and a huge straw hat. He has found that the goldfish business booms with Depression because goldfish are a cheap form of amusement. He is now experimenting with diets to determine how much influence feeding has on the color and marking of the fish. Next winter he will go to Japan to seek new and strange varieties...
Interrupting Muddler Thomas at this point by a tap upon the knee, Muddler Baldwin interjected, "We were never in that crowd...
...entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error, sending 100 ex-Marine guards to the spot on the run with guns ready. Deputy Governor W. Randolph Burgess rang a false alarm by mistake the first day he arrived. Communication is maintained with Governors Island, 15 min. away, where ten companies...
...Iowa farm last week was selling at 20-21¢ a bushel while hogs on the farm brought $4.25, or twice as much as usual. Only thing that disturbed farmers was the prospect of a rise in corn prices. Rain sent the corn stalks much beyond the established "knee high by Fourth of July" tradition, but the same rain has made ploughing hard, weeds abundant...