Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the team, the serious way they approach the meet that above all else they want to win. Practice bouts of up to three rounds, roadwork of one to two miles once, sometimes twice a day, shadow boxing, socking away at the heavy or light bags, or rope work all take their place in the drive to beat Virginia...
...grabbed his camera and dashed off for Tumbleton. There on the brink of a sparsely wooded ravine, 50 yd. from Farmer Bond's house, he found the bullet-riddled body of Negro Johnson. Tight-lipped farmers, who seemed to be awaiting his arrival, obligingly took hold of a rope that was tightly looped around the neck, hoisted the body high over the limb of a tree so that Editor Brown could make a more vivid camera record of 1937's No. 1 lynching.* At last week's end Henry County was buzzing with excitement. A special grand...
...alone. But, in the view of Professor John Clarke Slater, head of M. I. T.'s physics department, in the neighborhood of Absolute Zero the atomic interference is so feeble that electrons may combine in large swarms and travel along together like mountain climbers tied together by a rope. By virtue of this "co-operation," the faint show of opposition that might impede one electron impedes the swarm not at all, and electrical resistance is therefore...
Delay In Denver, Colo., a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad train arrived four hours late because the train repeatedly stopped for no apparent reason. Investigation disclosed that an elephant in the baggage car had spent the trip pulling the airbrake rope with its trunk...
...Oelrichs, wife of Bandleader Eddy Duchin. whose theory was that its guests would be so sick of snow that anything white would be offensive. Most delectable feature of Sun Valley for ardent skiers will be the world's most elaborate rigs for pulling humans up hills. An ordinary rope ski-tow, with padded bars to lean on, will function on Proctor Mountain (named for Sun Valley's ski expert and chief of guides, Charles Proctor). Where the 3,050-ft. towline ends, skiers will not even have to remove their skis before relapsing into "chairlifts" which will carry...