Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...
Rifle Club members will practice and sheet a postal match with Vermont between 10 and 12 o'clock this morning, it was announced yesterday. Between 2 and 4 o'clock this afternoon there will be a shoulder-to-shoulder match with the Naval R.O.T.C. team. Freshmen are eligible for those matches...
...fails to pay them any attention, are not, on the basis of what they have to say, worthy of being heard. For there is a distinction between sound intellectual operation, which takes discipline, and words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For the latter to get the cold shoulder at Harvard does not mean the College is old before its time, but rather that it is mature beyond its years. That is not a bad claim to distinction...
Fish compared the policy espoused by President Roosevelt at Chicago to that of a Harvard undergraduate "who with a chip on his shoulder goes around looking for a fight." If we go around "passing out moral judgements," we will always manage like the undergrad- uate in getting into a fight...
...whole, considering the resulting increase in telephone and laundry bills. But one exception was the host who came in at five in the morning. "I found a guy sprawled on the floor and thought he was a friend of mine, so I balanced a glass of water on his shoulder and then kicked him. When he looked up I found I'd never seen him before...