Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Press vouched for this: "A bus driver was blown out of his seat by the concussion of a bomb. His lifeless hands still gripped the steering wheel...
...Moto, a soft-spoken Japanese with poached-egg eyes and a thorough knowledge of jujitsu, solved some nasty criminal problems. A boxing glove soaked in poison, and a gun with a time device set up under the prize ring and pointed at Mr. Moto's seat all fitted into the pattern of a shady betting deal. Mr. Moto establishes a connection with Charlie by instructing Charlie's collegiate son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke), in a criminology class...
...Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents. In New York Mr. Shearn was defeated as a Democratic Hearst candidate for district attorney and later Governor, but finally won a seat on the State supreme court. In 1919 he left the bench for the bar, took along with him a pinched, judicial expression...
...streptococci from inflamed muscles, injected the culture into monkeys, reproduced the disease in them. In infantile paralysis, the affected muscles are withered and flaccid; in polio-encephalitis they are not-but they are so acutely inflamed and painful that spasms often occur and any movement is impossible. Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain...
...Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 28). This week Mr. Eden, had he cared to make difficulties for the Prime Minister who forced his resignation, could easily have provoked a monster demonstration. Instead "Tony" Eden, a British aristocrat who thinks first of being true to his class, kept away from his seat in the House of Commons, remained with his sister the Countess of Warwick at her villa on the French Riviera...