Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...
Telegraph wires hummed as if war were declared. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people ram-jammed into automobiles, streetcars, subways and onto sidewalks, honking and shouting and pushing their way. The New York "Giants" and the Washington "Senators" continued their exciting argument over the baseball championship of the planet...
Brotherly love expired in the breasts of 10,000 Philadelphians jammed about a chilly prize ring in a ball park. They snarled and yelled as, within the ring, Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, began to ram his fists against the body and flaming head of Bobby Barrett, challenger. After swinging heavily with his right once or twice, Barrett sank to the floor before Walker's battering. Staggering up, he fell again and again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett...
...jerky Long Island R. R. trains, the bumpy, pot-holed Long Island motor roads, were ram-jammed to capacity by thronging tennis enthusiasts crowding toward Forest Hills, L. I., to see if and how anyone would humble elongated William T. Tilden II, of Philadelphia, national champion the past four years, in the 1924 national singles play...
...greffes testiculaires were made in 1917. At first I tried grafting on young goats that had previously been deprived of their own. The male characteristics that they had lost when their own glands were removed returned. ... In 1918 I made my first experiments on senile animals. I took a ram, ten or twelve years of age, that the veterinarian told me might die at any time. He was so weak that his legs trembled when he stood, and he was unable to retain his urine. I grafted upon his glands those of a buck six months of age. In about...