Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than...
Zantzinger, Eli captain, stands head and shoulder above his fellow-booters. From his position at center half, he is a potent factor in all phases of the Yale play. Douglas, Bulldog goal guard, is another important cog in the Eli machine. Tomorrow will be his fourth clash against the Crimson, and he is expected to put up the same airtight defense which has characterized his other starts...
Richards, regular right guard, will be out for the season with a bruised shoulder, and will be replaced by Webster, last year's Freshman captain...
...family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...laugh to some approaching initiations. They caused him to serve as a "hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner...