Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perception of an auditory nature may or may not have been impaired. While twelve airplanes were in close proximity ... no airplane noise can be recalled. Also it was expected that the rush of air past the ears would produce considerable sound, yet none was noted...
Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) is a gaslight and "hoss''-pistol melodrama of San Francisco in the gold-rush days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector...
Being born is a terrific shock to a baby. The mother and obstetrician, says Dr. Kugelmass, should not rush the act. If the baby does not breathe at once, he should not be slapped, tumbled or doused with cold water. Let him lie still, on his back, and receive a little carbon-dioxide gas mixed with oxygen. Any observable deformity (harelip, club feet, etc.) should be mended during the first month or two. Floppy ears will often set if merely held close to the head with adhesive plaster...
...second story classroom to the single entrance can help considering the possibility of a fire. It is not as if the hall were used as a dormitory, such as Hollis or Stoughton, in which the stairs and hallaways would be frequented by students singly or in pairs. At the rush hours about eleven, twelve, and one o'clock Harvard Hall literally bulges with scores of students flowing at a maddeningly leisurely rate along the hall on the second stairway, and spilling out of the lone doorway into the Yard...
...stairway that allows passage for but one man at a time each way up and down. Eight minutes out of every hour are therefore spent moving an absurdly short distance of some twenty or thirty fect in a congestion comparable only to a New York subway station in a rush hour...