Word: mite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning early in July the wife of Dee Wyatt, Negro sharecropper living on the banks of White River near Newport, Ark. shuffled out to her backyard pump, drew a bucket of water, groaned a mite as she paused to rest her back. Casually she glanced across the turgid river, then shrieked and scurried into the ramshackle house after her husband. Dee Wyatt popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer...
From the referee's launch it was impossible to judge accurately the Deacons' lead. On shore Eliot supporters declared they were defeated by "not a mite more than four feet," while Kirkland followers said it was an "easy half length...
Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...
Rose Bowl. In Pasadena, 85,000 including 2,000 sombreroed Texans, watched a favored Southern Methodist attack, led by an All-America mite, Bobby Wilson, falter before Stanford's rugged defense, finally fall 7-to-0. Outstanding star was none of the four All-America players, but Quarterback Bill Paulman who scored Stanford's touchdown in the first period, intercepted four passes, kept Southern Methodist at bay with booming punts...
...Mighty Mite...