Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reviewed Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade, and came face to face with New York's Republican presidential aspirant, Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Both beamed, exchanged enthusiastic handshakes and stood shoulder to shoulder in amiable conversation while the parade passed...
...government man with the small box slung over his shoulder paced slowly to and fro, holding his rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
...Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley announced the two big winners: Barbara Wolff, 17, of New York, and 15-year-old Andrew Kende of Evanston, Ill. As soon as she heard the news, Barbara, flushed and fluttery, rushed to a phone to tell her father. A quiet girl with shoulder-long hair, she spends her time at home studying the nonhereditary mutations of the fruit fly. Her father, a school principal in New York City, had already heard the news on the radio. Cried he into the phone: "Half the neighborhood's drunk already...
...break with provincial university life; one daughter seeks salvation in science, another in religion; a son can see no salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley. England, being itself the hero of The Linden Tree, would understandably give it a hearing. But simply as playwriting it is talky and lifeless...
...class, reached the semi-finals where he met Paschal Perri of Syracuse, who beat him four years ago when both were in high school. Perri turned the trick again via a 10 to 3 decision and then went on to win the individual championship. Somewhat hampered by an injured shoulder, Louria lost to Pack Howard of Yale, 6 to 2, to drop into fourth place...