Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey's finds in Kenya Colony 200 miles from the Oldoway gorge. The human fossils which Mr. Leakey has-he transported one in its aboriginal mold to London-are with little question pleistocene. They were built and buried like Oldoway. One had an iron ring around a toe bone. The ring seems a preposterous anachronism...
...Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps too too somber, too doleful. The boast the he was "the best song and dance in the world" failed to ring true: threat that he would throw himself the East River seemed far more possible. Mr. Brian's interpretation, however, is admisable; moreover it is vincing and consistent throughout...
...dullest bush-leaguer who figured in the baseball fiction of Ring Lardner had been much more rustic and addle-headed, he would have been very much like Floyd ("Babe"') Herman, outfielder for the Brooklyn Robins since 1927. Herman is celebrated for allowing fly-balls to drop on his head, for transforming a homerun into a triple play (by passing two other base-runners), for carrying a lighted cigar in his pocket. But, because he is a powerful batter and at times a competent fielder, he is by no means a liability to his team. Last week Babe Herman...
...Coffman foretold many uses for his felt-steel roofing and sidings for buildings, pipe lining, paneling, fireproofing. When struck the material does not ring like steel, an advantage in a decibel-conscious...
...sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets, crystallized almonds, nuts, Eva Veeder's ring. Lacking more, he picked little red hips from wildrose shrubs, stuffed them into the serpent's jaws. Going away he looked back, saw some magpies flying around the place; one was perched on the serpent's head, seemed to be pecking into the jaws. "A feeling of boundless...