Word: shinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home...
...have had nearly 100 cases in one day. I have counted over 40 large ulcers, as big as a shilling, on each of the legs of one man. The ulcers are deep and painful, penetrating to the muscles, and sometimes destroying 50% of the skin of calf and shin...
...slap her face, she learned Art's most cherished trade secret: One Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...
China has been combed for plants poisonous to insects by Dr. Shin Foon Chiu, Cornell graduate. One of his finds tested at Cornell by Dr. Roy Hansberry is Millettia pachycarpa, which bears seeds as big as small walnuts. Dr. Hansberry found Millettia to be as effective as rotenone dust, but the plant is not yet grown in quantity...
Aquaplaning is.nothing more than standing on a broad, flat board, hanging onto a rope and being towed by a motorboat. But, at 50 m.p.h. hanging-on is no hay ride. Usually, less than half the starters finish (falling off, however, does not disqualify). Despite padded shin guards and taped hands, those who finish invariably require first aid-for sprained wrists, numbed feet, bruises from flying fish as well as falls. Many are carried from the finish-line to a hospital...