Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glorify in American Government's endeavor to bring about world-peace and International brotherhood. You as an American intelligent, well-informed newspaper editor should follow the leadership of your national leaders, or else consider yourself unfit as an editor and keep your mouth shut...
...Cambridge, Mass., federal narcotic agents searched an apartment. Finding nothing, they started to leave. Suddenly one of them stopped, stooped, pulled some drugs out of a dog's mouth...
...attached to the bag which sounds an uninterrupted bass note, are the main characteristics of the bagpipe. It has a limited range of notes, is very difficult to play. The bag is held under the piper's left arm, the blowpipe which feeds the bag is held in his mouth, his fingers play along the "chaunter," the melody pipe punctuated with lateral holes. The reeds point skyward...
...lecturer in Cornell University's course on Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid eyes. Surely, said most of the examiners, this man must be a moron. In the other was a man with a straight glance...
...caution to the waves, splash and frisk on the surface, leap over and dive under each other, bumping and slapping in great loving tail-thwacks that can be heard for a mile.* At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head. When the whale opens his mouth to bite, the shark snaps at his tongue, holds him submerged until drowned. Then, to the anger of whale-lovers, the wasteful shark eats only the tongue before searching for other victims...