Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most of them belong to the pit-viper family. They have a deep depression between eye and nostril. Heads are flat and triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...
When the record of a certain hospital patient comes to the School, all the information about him, such as age, number of teeth, etc., numbering perhaps 500, facts, is put onto these cards by means of a code, a punch, for example, in row five column 37 meaning that the person in question is a convalescent...
...failure of the papers in these places may generally be laid to a too high sense of duty. Conscious of the distinction conferred upon them by a row of linotype machines at their bidding, they publish definite opinions on questions of supreme importance. Too often there is no firm foundation of fact, and because disapproval is the easiest course for misinformation, the result is the cynicism which has become a byword...
...discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...
...once gave me when I wrote down my occupation as 'composer.' Might just as well have written down 'ballet dancer.' People had the idea that music was a woman's business, like, well, like knitting. A musician and a poet had a pretty hard row...