Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night another flew into the ground in Idaho. Less than a week later another boy, with ice on his wings, fell in Ohio. Next day an engine failed over Long Island Sound: one drowned, two injured. At Cheyenne two died when a spitting motor sent a plane into a spin after the takeoff. Another flier broke his neck in an Ohio snowstorm. Engine failure killed a pilot in a Daytona Beach takeoff. Eight days later another plane went into a spin at Cheyenne. Bad weather crashed a flier in Iowa; a pilot, lost in a thick Pennsylvania fog, jumped...
Birling is far harder than rolling off a log. It is the art of staying on while others tumble. In birling, two sure-footed log-rollers, standing on a peeled log floating in the water, try to spin it so as to roll each other off. With eyes glued to the other fellow's calked shoes, they "cuff it" (roll the log), "snub it" (stop dead and reverse the rolling). First they roll a log 18 inches in diameter, then a 17-incher, finally a 16-incher ("the toothpick"). Two falls out of three wins a match...
...Moore and driven by little Mauri Rose. When Rose was forced to drop out after 152 miles because of carburetor trouble, it looked like a cinch for Shaw. Then, rounding a turn on the 151st lap (380 miles), Shaw's car threw a tire, did a triple spin, crashed into the retaining wall. Shaw was not seriously hurt and the crowd soon forgot about...
Playing a defensive game and relying on a back-hand, top-spin drive, Cohn vanquished his opponent in three straight games. Toughest men in the tournament, according to the winner, were Dan Goronstein of Dudley and Johnny Burton, of Matthews. In the match with Burton, Cohn revenged the licking he received at the hands of his opponent in the finals of last fall's Freshman tennis tournament...
...Jones with an article in the New York World-Telegram: ". . . I knew that to be what I wanted it to be it must have a childlike candor, a simplicity, an innocence. ... I wanted the play to have a pristine quality-to look like a fresh-minted dime and to spin like one. I think it does...