Word: porch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these damaging circumstantial points stood one for De Marigny: Nancy's faith and the preparations she has made for experts' aid if the case comes to trial. But as she left the courtroom one day last week, she stumbled blindly on to the court's back porch, sobbing without restraint. She did not know that the street below was filled with spectators...
Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
Animal Kingdom. In Dallas, Mrs. J. E. Britton discovered a wolf asleep on her porch swing. In Los Angeles, Councilman Harold Harby invented a device to keep roosters from crowing by making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore...
...porch one lovely night
...Historian Paul de Kruif called it a "grand shambles of an experiment," remarked that it unquestionably accomplished "the greatest good for the greatest number." Foot-&-mouth disease has scourged Europe for centuries; in the U.S. it is now nonexistent, thanks to John Mohler, who rocked comfortably on his Washington porch this week, unmedaled, unsung and content...