Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trick is really very simple. The pole (probably not the one originally exhibited) has a strong metal core, and fits solidly into a socket in the ground. Onto its upper end, through the folds of the elaborate knot, is rigidly attached a horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
...elephants began to squeal and stamp. Throughout the zoo rose a jungle din of roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally flourished his trunk at them, went on stamp'ng and gouging his victim. Guards scurried up, stood with rifles cocked to shoot the female elephants if they should stampede. It was too late to do anything for Ed Brown. His body was in four pieces when the keepers finally drove Wally...
Boes 6Pirates 6 (Called in 10th) Giants 5 Cubs 4 Dodgers 5 Cards 2 Reds 6 Phillies 4 Tigers 5 Rod Sox 0 Browns 7 Yankees 0 Athletics-Indians: rain. Senators-White Sox: rain...
...celebrated classroom caitiff like Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding. In most of the nation's schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans...
...James (''Jimmy") Lin, 28, nephew and adopted son of China's puppet President Lin Sen; by Viola Brown Lin, 25, onetime 5?-&-10? store clerk; in Columbus, Ohio. Last April Jimmy, a graduate student at Ohio State University, walked into a store to buy a fishing rod, met Miss Brown. His marriage three months later shocked & grieved President Lin, caused a political stir. In September Jimmy deserted his wife, fled home...