Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roanoke, Va., Jesse T. Meadows scrambled up a small tree to shoot a squirrel. On a smooth limb he slipped, fell out of the tree, flung his wrist against the blade of an ax, which sliced off his hand, discharged his gun, which blew off his foot...
...Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds together to produce a powerful program of persuasion. The halls of Harvard will soon echo the salubrious arguments of Olympian debaters, who plan to challenge the more retiring amongst us who prefer to have the human limb enshrouded in Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and mystery. In this way, they hope "to stimulate the interests of students in nudism and in the work of the league...
Catholics, I believe, consider Hitler a very dead limb...
...public had not come to buy in volume at higher prices. With NRA wages, and with the Government pegging the price of cotton, the cotton mills were hung on a limb, all dressed up with high prices and few customers to sell...
...find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants...