Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence, Italy, in a chamber of the Villa Palmieri, where Boccaccio is supposed to have spun out his ingenious Decameron, an old gentleman lay very sick abed. Seventy-five years were on his back. On his chest there was bronchial pneumonia. On his heart, heavier than years or sickness, there was black despair...
Every midshipman at Annapolis will soon study aviation through the 4-year curriculum. Theory of flight, aero-engines, aerial navigation and similar subjects will worry the already hard-worked students. In the future they will learn to fly-if they can pass the physical tests. These include being spun round in a revolving chair to simulate spinning in the air, walking blindfold in a straight line, breathing rarefied air corresponding to an altitude of 20,000 ft. or so. Army Air Service men see in this an outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United...
...Austin, Tex., Harold M. Osborne, jumping in the University of Texas relay games, pitched himself into the air, unbuckled his body so that it spun across a bar 6 ft. 8 15/16 in. from the ground, thus establishing a new world's record for the high jump. The old record, also...
Fauna?amorous, honey-spun, Keat-sian?allegorizes a northerner's change of heart upon settling in ripe, sun-warmed California...
...feared in Passaic. "We'd rather lose to any team than Hackensack," said Krakovitch, Russel, Rohrback, Adams, Pashman, reassuring their followers. These followers groaned when Bollerman (six feet six inches), Hackensack centre, tipped the ball to a Hackensack forward who passed it, caught it, passed it, caught it, spun it into the basket for the first score. They took heart when, at the end of the first quarter, Passaic led by four points. For the rest of the game, they sat with cold palms, dry throats, while their team fought in vain to avoid the overthrow which certainly menaced...