Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have an instinct for avoiding any direct collisions, escaped but other members of the squad sustained an injury of some kind. In the second tilt, however, the Harvard players were set for the onslaught and were careful not to parade down the ice after the fashion of light rope walkers. Practically no injuries took place in the second game...
...Japanese Generals and Admirals uneasiest. Once in battle, a Japanese samurai ("two-sworded man") is barred by the Samurai Code from calling for help. A samurai is Lieut.-General Uyeda, Japanese military commander at Shanghai last week. When he and his army got utterly to the end of their rope, Samurai Uyeda did not call for help. But his good friend Admiral Nomura called and Tokyo sent help, sent enough troops to double the Japanese expeditionary force, poured in so many planes and guns that Japan herself was in no proper state of defense...
...thought he heard faint cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...
...capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord of the bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather to the hair of a demon perched on the summit of the tower. A cowled personage is seated beside the demon on the roof holding what may be a tile in his hands, while over his shoulder appears a cutting hammer...
...considered tough enough to begin learning the 48 tricks & dodges of Japanese wrestling, or Sumo.* In a 12-ft. ring a Japanese wrestler grunts through a brief career of trying to squash his opponent into submission. If he becomes a yokozuna (champion) he may tie a piece of straw rope around his waist and consort with the highest personages, but even for the yokozuna pay is small, consisting mostly of patrons' contributions and roast pigs and bottles of sake sent by admirers. Soon the wrestler has his hair cut, retires to a lethargic O-shaped...