Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury which included Amelia Earhart Putnam, Madam Secretary Perkins (who voted by mail from a catalog) and Professor John Dewey found most beautiful a section of spring, an outboard propeller, a ring of ball bearings. The voting public chose a larger propeller, a triple mirror, a metal measure...
...spectators waited to see a black-browed young daredevil risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward Ridge wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum in twelve alternating layers. To protect himself from deadly fumes emanating from the ice he also put on a mask connected to a small oxygen tank carried in his hand. He clumped up a stepladder, lifted...
...Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting himself. Silly Mrs. Thayer died of overexerting her alcoholic heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners...
...corner in the eighth and caught Loughran against the ropes for a second. In the tenth, he made the mistake of courteously touching gloves, as if it were the last round. At the end of the 14th, Loughran was dazed enough to start for the wrong corner of the ring. During the next round, Loughran managed to cling groggily to his huge adversary until the bell ended the fight. Three judges gave Camera a unanimous decision...
...Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock on the mining list. Bell Isle was whirled from obscurity to $5.25 a share by the "Tuscarora Ring," then allowed to subside to $1.25. To West Coast octogenarians "PostWar boom" still means post-Civil...