Word: slab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, when Woodrow Wilson, broken in health, retired from the old white mansion at 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. and went to live quietly in a house on S Street in the northwestern part of Washington?Vice President Dawes, taking in his hand an historic trowel, laid a great marble slab upon a steel casket containing masonic emblems...
...fast game yesterday afternoon, the Crimson Seconds held the University batsmen to a 4 to 2 score. Ellis on the slab for the Seconds pitched a good game...
...first inning. With this in view, and assisted by the Bowdoin team and a high wind, the Crimson outfit marked up six tallies in the opening canto. As far as winning the contest goes, these runs were entirely wasted, for John Barbee was in fine fettle, both on the slab and as a batter. His single manufactured the only run that Harvard needed to win, as his good right arm yielded but three infield hits to the invaders. No Brunswicker reached second base, and only four left spike marks on the first sack...
...loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass came loose like a slab of stale custard...
...Gigli wants to adorn a slab in the morgue, let him try to sing in Detroit. We will slit his canary throat...