Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cried he: "There can be no human or personal rights without property rights." They paid even less attention to the resolution which Representative Dies introduced for a House investigation of the Sit-Down and its causes. Even under the Old Deal, no Congressional investigating committee ever dared poke its nose far into the affairs of Labor. Under the New Deal, which has missed few chances to turn the limelight on Capital's transgressions. Labor's inviolability has been unquestioned. The Dies resolution was quietly turned over to the potent Rules Committee, from which few bills unwelcome...
...altar throne. .During Mass, celebrated by Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, the Pope knelt unassisted during the Consecration and Elevation of the Host. To the faithful who had not seen him. since the beginning of his illness last December, he looked thin, drawn, old. He blew his nose frequently, once shot a reassuring smile at Dr. Milani who stood nearby, looking nervous. After Mass, Pius XI was carried to the balcony below which, in St. Peter's Square, were jammed 150,000 people. Upon these, in a firm voice which was broadcast to the world, the Pope bestowed...
...best, least fatiguing posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...
...radio direction finder and a 35-man airport staff which laid out a runway channel with green and red buoys. Last week, eight hours after leaving Honolulu, having flown some 500 ft. over the sea at 140 m.p.h., the Pan American Clipper hit Kingman Reef right on the nose, lit on the light green waters of the lagoon, which, reported Capt. Musick, "stood out in sharp contrast to the dark indigo of the surrounding...
...small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head to foot. Sweat trickled down his nose and cheeks, dripped from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair while an attendant pulled off the dusty boots, Clyde Beatty, the most celebrated trainer of lions and tigers in the world and part owner of the newest and most extraordinary U. S. circus, honestly sighed...