Word: oval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rejuvenator Steinach had previously sought his elixir in the germinal glands, which he now claims have a secretive alliance with the pituitary gland. That small, oval, reddish-gray body, appended to the brain, is made up of two separately active lobes. The rear one exudes a valuable drug, which has been ingeniously injected to speed heartbeat, to increase blood pressure, or to make muscles contract. It is used in cases of surgical shock, in obstetrics, after abdominal surgery...
Upstairs, in the arena of Madison Square Garden, the scene was less hectic. A scattering of smart people sat in boxes or strolled about; other people, haggard, dirty, inarticulate, led their dogs about on leashes. The centre of the large oval arena had been squared off, floored with rough green carpet, spotted here and there with dark, irregular circles. Into this place, people brought their dogs to be examined by the judges. It was for the judges, prodding the sparse flesh upon a terrier's bones or stroking the pursed silky ear of a beagle, to decide how each...
...Sliding oval objects which looked like big stone bowls with the bowl part filled in and with a little handle poking up on top, sliding these objects down an alley marked on the ice of a rink in Winnipeg, Ker Dunlop and S. Mair of St. Paul, curlers, won the Black & Armstrong Cup, famed international curling trophy...
...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
Pale, sad, oval face...