Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never seen such a large frog in my life. Every minute or so he would raise his front leg to his mouth as if wiping his chin. Opening his mouth I pulled out a full grown Sandpiper nearly all swallowed...
...swearing-in of Deemster Stevenson More. Deemster More, great and most respected antique of the Manx Bench, has been in retirement for ten years. Emerging last week, he was installed as sole deemster of one-half the Isle of Man. Richly and roundly he swore upon Holy Bible this mouth-filling Manx oath: "By the wonderful works that God miraculously wrought in between heaven above and the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I swear to execute the laws of the Isle justly between our sovereign lord the King and his subjects as indifferently as the herring...
...person unable to breathe voluntarily is sealed in the chamber, all except his head. An electric pump creates a mild, interrupted vacuum in the sealed box. The vacuum is sufficient to pull up the victim's chest. That action pulls air into his lungs through his mouth which remains exposed to the free air. When the chamber vacuum is released, his chest falls, air is squeezed out of his lungs. The interrupted vacuum thus makes him breathe at a normal rate, keeps him alive until he can breathe again by himself...
...port on the Bay to take out wheat without sending it overland 1,000 miles farther to Montreal. When Canadians began to work seriously on the problem it was discovered that there were only two possible ports on the western side of Hudson Bay: Port Nelson, at the mouth of the tidal Nelson River, and Fort Churchill, at the emptying of Churchill River into an indentation known as Button Bay. The nearest railway ended at the remote settlement known as The Pas, about 500 miles away from both harbors in Manitoba...
...green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth. The dinosaur is characteristic of Producer Carroll : in the current Follies, Producer Ziegfeld has girls carried by mere elephants...