Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened after Dr. Shields ducked under the desk was a shower of eggs, rocks, fruit, skins, fish. Then came the students, 400 strong, irate, crying, "Lets get Shields! Hurray for Wayman...
Hurling a shower of large mangel-wurzels (cow beets) on the stage, the students cried: "This is an insult to economic distress in Croatia!" "Long live Croatian culture!" "Down with such vulgarity...
...entire wall is hung a tapestry which reaches from ceiling to floor. Behind the tapestry, in a kind of recess, is a large and well equipped refreshment counter. Across the room from this counter is a large safe, containing money and other valuables. One door leads to a shower; there is, however, no dressing room. ¶ Last week also- saw further consolidation in the parent industry when newly-formed (TIME, March 18) Aviation Corp.. took over Colonial Airways, capitalized at $5,000,000. ¶ Pratt & Whitney (produced 960 engines in 1928; plan 2,000 in 1929) an nounced...
...friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring have been : Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Newswriter Mark Sullivan, Presidential Physician Boone, Detective Secretary Richey. The playground is sheltered from public gaze by thick shrubbery. President Hoover works up a good perspiration, takes a shower, a massage, is ready for work...
...Earth within human history has not been struck by (i. e., has not attracted) a planetesimal. But each day at least one meteorite lands, and 20,000,000 chondrulites whiz into the earth's atmosphere. They are the shooting stars seen most often in November (the Leonid shower), in August (the Perseid shower) and in April (the Lyrid shower...