Word: sprawling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family. He was subject to fits. Caring for him ceaselessly at home exhausted the parents' health as well as their money...
...holds the broken shells of three of the toughest. Hitherto each television station has been using six megacycles, almost six times the total wavelength space filled by 745 licensed stations in the U. S. broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done in the laboratory through its ability to use longer wave lengths which are effective beyond the horizonwide limit of television's usual ultrashort waves, hopes...
...unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over streets and into houses, crashed bridges, washed out hillsides. The rain continued. When it finally stopped after five appalling days, Los Angeles had had the worst...
...kill" was almost too literal but poetic justice must be served--two yards from the tape, as Lightbody drew up even with his opponent, Millet stumbled and fell in a sprawl on the pock-marked boards. The time was 3:32, not brilliant because of the mishap in the first quarter...
Edwin May Teale did a lot more, however, than sprawl on his belly meditating, more than setting down his meditations on paper. He went about making his imaginings real for other men and last week published a book, Grassroot Jungles* the fruit of six years' study and expert photography of what...