Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail began when the woman, her features twitching, yelped and fell into an eclamptic fit. Her whole body became rigid. She clenched her teeth, stopped breathing. Her face turned dusky red. For more than a minute she lay like that. Then, after a few minutes of spasmodic limb-yanking and body-jerking, she relaxed into a deathly coma...
...with truly pivotal necks may feel at ease when cars whisk by from all directions. It may even be asserted that Harvard Square training will make this college preeminent in the hundred-yard dash. But the great majority would be content to cross streets without risk to life and limb, and keep before them that great American possibility of becoming president...
...Postal cards addressed to Herman Strutter from clipping bureaus, stating that for 10 or 25? they will send him an item of interest have been received. Wise Perry post-office employes place Strutter's mail in the Herald box. Climax was the receipt of advertising from artificial limb companies...
...Hello," she called. "I didn't know you were back. The last I heard you had fallen out of a tree in Uvalde." The little man's blue eyes twinkled. "Mrs. Roosevelt," said Vice President Garner, "I didn't hurt myself. I jumped from a limb and misjudged the distance to the ground...
...manager of the wholesale division of Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; in Augusta, Me. Said Canadian-born Mrs. Lewis, who owns 20 beauty parlors throughout the land, races a string of horses: "My pride in the business, my idealism, caused the trouble between us. ... I found I was out on a limb, so I had to cut the limb...