Word: sling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...
...Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word history...
Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged...
Novae, or "new stars," are stars which, because of some unknown unbalance, flare up in a gigantic explosion, throw out hundreds of thousands of times as much heat and light as before, sling off shells of hot gas, subside at last to something like their former status. Close study of a nova during 1935 showed three shells of gas expanding...
...strangest part of the mechanics, however, is the behavior of the property men. They are always very much in evidence. Slouching all over the stage, they evince only occasionally a condescending interest in the anties of the performers. In general, they withdraw their attention from their newspapers only to sling a cushion to the boards in the nick of time to soften the fall of some suppliant's knees...