Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's great silk business is in a very bad way. More than one-third of Japan's farming families (6,000,000 people) make part of their living by raising mulberry trees, feeding the leaves to silkworms, selling the cocoons that the worms spin out of their lower jaws. Several hundred thousand little Japanese girls earn their living and their marriage dowries in the filatures where the silken cocoons are un reeled. Until last summer the U.S. bought 90% of Japan's raw silk exports, amounting in 1940 to $150,311,000. Then the freezing...
...conscious all the way down and comfortable, too," he told newsmen. "I could see the earth whirling by me, for I was in a fast body spin. . . . Then I whipped through a fragment of cloud and my goggles frosted up. ... I raised one side of the goggles and glanced at the sensitive altimeter." By this time he was in a dizzy end-over-end spin. He flung out one arm, stopped the spin and plummeted straight again...
...Gaposchkin further explained that what appear to be single stars, even with the most powerful telescopes, are usually a "family" of the great flery masses which figuratively stand toe-to-toe and spin about each other at the dizzy rate of four revolutions a day. Only by the frequent eclipses which cause varying amounts of light, can astronomers detect these bodies...
With star stagger-back Peter "Ham and" Dammann out with severe internal injures, the undefeated CRIME outfit will meet at Art Hopkins' Club at 3 o'clock to play spin the bottle for the honor of taking over...
From Mr. Starnes's experiences, the scientists last week drew a practical conclusion: they suggested use of a small, accessory anti-spin parachute, to keep jumpers in a semierect position and minimize the distress of swirling...