Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springs, Ark., Mrs. Mary Cronin, 34, sinned, brooded. It was her eyes which had led her to sin and the Bible said, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out."* When a doctor got to her, Mary Cronin, armed with a safety pin, had dug out her right eye, most of her left...
...arrangement of coincidence counters, made further discoveries about the spray, which last week he reported. Coincidence counters are multiple arrangements of individual counting-tubes. Arranging three tubes in the form of a triangle, Professor Rossi was able, by recording simultaneous discharges in the three tubes, to pin down the secondary rays as originating in the neighborhood of the triangle. He found that the splash rays differ from the primary rays in penetrative power. Up to a certain point the showers were more frequent as the thickness of the lead sheet was increased; the maximum shower production was observed in lead...
...sale shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Ticket buyers, confident last week that they could trust His Grace to do the sweepstakely thing, chuckled at the un successful efforts of London journalists to pin him down. "His Grace's mind is absolutely blank about the details and will be until Sept. 30," reporters were told. Looming behind the Duke of Atholl a phalanx of patronesses, mostly culled from the peerage, seemed to assure that a proper share of all money received will...
...doctor treat a case of infantile paralysis. Her own child contracts the disease and dies before serum can be brought by airplane. She is just about to throw herself out of a window in despair when the janitor scampers in to say that his child has swallowed a safety pin. Pulling it out is what restores Mary Stevens' interest in existence...
...removed. Posing as a dancer looking for work, she allowed a white slaver to take her to his room where she was badly beaten, but refused to take her clothes off, and had the presence of mind, while he was "ripping and tearing" at her, to stick her monogram pin in the mattress for identification purposes. When she went to a nudist colony she found herself in an even more embarrassing situation, but says she kept the victory. Gal Reporter Lowell says she was ashamed at first of writing for a tabloid, but ended "by being proud that any words...