Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was no response to shaking or supraorbital pressure. Carbon dioxide administration was then begun and continued for 30 minutes. During the middle of the administration, the patient began swearing and struggling and had to be held down. When the mask was removed at 3.46, he gave his name, address, and occupation...
...discovered and the fact that it had been hidden made the public's delight the keener. "Now," the public conceived, "we are getting behind the President's mask...
...lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two circled, the field after them. Two laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon's field sport, has traveled no more than 100 yards, Nurmi broke the tape, broke also, by 9 2/5 seconds, a world's record. (Time...
...face twisted like a mask of torture...
...shapes of their minds, their ideas, their words and how they use them, their manners and how men are revealed therein. Being vigorous and Irish, he walks close beside you, pointing here, there, with nervous, witty gusto. Being excessively sensitive and shy, he hides himself behind a mask of erudite satire whenever he is the least suspicious that your attention is not riveted on something or some one other than himself. Or, being enormously proud of this mask, which is really most impressive, he puts it on just for the secret sport of being pompous...