Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore. One of his front teeth was gone and there was something like a little brad nail came down from the upper gum where the tooth ought to be. He'd had what they call a pivot tooth put in where his own tooth had been broken off with a bottle and then the pivot tooth had come off its anchor and he carried it around in his pocket...
...Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter hours The Good Earth runs, Actress Rainer manages to make her every thought and action as clear as crystal. Silently she fosters Wang's yearning for more land, shields him from his sycophant uncle...
John Dingle, the forgotten man of last year's team, has replaced giant Moose Dudis at the pivot post, and the six foot, five inch Sophomore will be in reserve...
...second line will have Joie Catlin at the pivot with George Kenty and Freshman Jack Carver on the wings. Freshman Jack Carver on the wings. This trio is the one unit which was able to stay with the speedy Redmen in the defeat here last Friday. Bob Cowley, the intermediate player who has been a sensation in recent games, will be added to the roster to complete the squad...
...wife is the goddess of Hindu civilization, the mother is its pivot, and the grandmother is the ruler of the home." Author Yeats-Brown went wherever he could find holy men. dervishes, religious teachers. In Allahabad he watched the parade of 1,000 stark naked followers of Siva...