Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired. Suddenly Ray, suddenly Hahn, heard a great roar that was not for them. The robin's-egg shirt had begun to move. Hahn, Ray, saw it go past them, round the turn, into the last lap. Six yards from the tape, Nurmi looked over his shoulder. He saw Ray, swaying, agonized, fighting to take second place from Hahn. He slowed down, stepped through the tape at a walk. His time- 4:13 3/5-broke by a second Ray's world record for the indoor* mile...
Terrific roof-raising yells greeted Mussolini. Deputies rushed at him and bore him out of the Chamber shoulder high while salvo upon salvo of cheers boomed out from the overhead galleries. It was conceded to be Mussolini's greatest triumph...
Against these all the great storm broke. A wave slapped the tall ship's side, burst in a thick glass port, flooded a cabin and swept a man reclining in security out of his berth, wrenching his shoulder out of place. The gale increased. At times it blew 100 miles an hour. More ports were driven in? eleven ports in all. On three successive days, green water rolled over the boat deck, 90 ft. above the keel. Two stewards were thrown down a companionway and broke their arms. The expansive panes of the windows protecting the promenades and staterooms were...
...fame gained by scholastic achievement that drives the Continental student through stacks of rusty volumes. If the ability to make ten yards through the line were as highly prized in Germany as it is in the United States no doubt ten thousand aspirants would don helmets and shoulder pads...
Andrew J. Volstead clapping his hand to the shoulder of Jesus Christ in the manner of one who makes an arrest; William J. Bryan spilling a jar of wine made by holy miracle out of water; William H. Anderson at the doorway in a derby hat. This parable?a raid on the marriage feast of Cana, painted by J. Francois Kaufman and exhibited last year in Manhattan?led to the arrest and conviction of Abraham S. Baylinson, Secretary of the Society of Independent Artists, for "violation of public decency." Last week an Appellate Court reversed the decision, returned...