Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anciently a man with bunched shoulder muscles squatted on his lean haunches and, with a piece of chipped flint, scratched a design on a piece of bone. That was writing...
...intrepid American flyer brought his Spirit of St. Louis down on Valbuena Field at 2.39. . . . He had covered more than 2,000 miles in 27 hours, 15 minutes . . . from the crowd delirious shouts of joy . . . motorcycle police rushed toward the spot . . . Lindbergh was lifted upon the shoulders of his new Mexican admirers and placed into an automobile which began a slow trip to the Presidential stand. . . . The American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely...
...Vermont Flood Credit Corporation, chartered in Vermont. Vermonters will be asked to take up $250,000 of the stock; outsiders $750,000. Vermont bankers will make relief loans to flood victims, accepting character to supplement collateral. If there are losses on the loans, the V. F. C. Corp. will shoulder 50%. Most of the V. F. C. Corp's directors are to be Vermonters and though the Corporation is designed to live only one year, its guarantees will stand for five years. Such was the financial aid devised by self-reliant New England businessmen to restore the vitality...
...seeing that Poland is on the League of Nations Council and that Lithuania is also a member. Our country has little over two millions population- small, as compared to Poland's 29,000,000, but in such an event the whole nation would sink its differences and stand shoulder to shoulder, and I know that the peasantry would fly to arms to repel the invader." When news of Pilsudski's charges reached Kovno, harassed Premier Valdemaras promptly denied that Lithuanian troops had been mobilized against Poland, then ordered his bags packed, and set out for Geneva to enlist...
...vois la crayon," calls Jean gaily over the telephone, and Arthur who has been courting assiduously for months is plain stymied. "They give me the cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course...