Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vumeri Hospital the cockroaches chirped, the patients rang bells, and the staff patiently waited in the sumptuous laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of almond hair whispered that they were waiting for the reaction. Within the cubic cell were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions...
Around the world last week rang out cries of dismay and outrage when President Roosevelt abruptly swept the U. S. off the gold standard and let the dollar coast down toward the depreciated currency levels of 34 foreign powers. Domestic economy controlled the President's action but there was hardly a country on earth that did not see in his gold embargo order a slick trick in world finance. This opinion was intensified by the fact that he had moved only two days before beginning his White House conferences preparatory to the World Economic Conference...
Hillyer's trouser-leg was pulled very strongly; Hillyer reported that the psychic's feet were not near his feet when his trouser cuff was pulled. An electric bulb on the ceiling fiashed on and off. Buzzers rang, a "teleplasmic" arm grasped objects on the table in the dark. The arm pulled Dr. Boring's hair. "Dr. Boring placed his nose in the doughnut and encouraged Walter to pull as hard as possible. He was pulled with a fumbling horizontal movement strongly enough to hurt a little...
...returned to Cambridge in time to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The five buildings which comprised Harvard College in 1775 were placed at the disposal of the army. Approximately 640 men were squeezed into Massachusetts Hall, a building normally meant to house 64 supernatural phenomena. Bells rang in "Scholars." About the same number was placed in "The New College" of Hollis Hall, 240 soldiers were assigned to the "Old College," "the first Stoughton," while Holden housed 160 of the troops...
...Chicago, when a gunman held up Fruiterer Nicholas Ramos, he did not notice that in pulling out his gun he also pulled out a $10 bill, which fell on the floor. The gunman took $3 from the cash register, departed. Nicholas Ramos picked up the $10, rang...