Word: logged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fakirs are often unbelievably strong. When the tent walls close behind him, all that Subbayah conceivably has to do is to induce rigor, leaving one arm free to inch his body little by little up the stick. If the stick is off the vertical and slants away from his log-like body he can hang easily from its top, provided his centre of gravity is directly above the point where the stick enters the ground...
...citizens who promptly took him to visit one of the city's hot-bath houses. After a two-hour luncheon at Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch's luxurious summer home on an island in Lake Catherine, driving back in a summer shower, the tourists stopped at an old log church, watched 30 pious folk dressed as pioneers, Indians and soldiers put on an oldtime camp meeting...
Political songs and torchlight parades raged throughout the 19th Century. Peak came with the Log Cabin-Hard Cider campaign (1840) conducted by the Whigs in behalf of General William H. Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe, and his running-mate, John Tyler. Opponent was Democrat Martin Van Buren of New York, who prompted the Whigs to sing...
However, probable loss of two regulars, Frederick J. Fayette 3L, because of law exams and Alan Simpson 1G, who scored winning tally in the Princeton game on April 25, because of a log injury, may handicap the visiting booters...
...kept hammering away at them ever since. "Let us have an end of generalities about 'co-operation,' 'confidence' and 'breathing spells,' " he barked last month. "The Government will not have done its part in solving the unemployment problem until it breaks specific log-jams...