Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponent, reached across his own shoulder to seize Brown ing's head, tossed him over his shoulder in a "flying mare." After three "flying mares," Champion Browning was too sore and puzzled to do more than rub his neck. Champion Londos seized him by the crotch, spun him in the air, dropped him on the canvas, fell on top, pinned his shoulders to the floor...
...resources, and to work out technical procedures by means of which the modern state can balance, equalize, neutralize, offset, correct the private judgments of masses of individuals. This is what I mean by a Compensated Economy and the method of free collectivism. . . . If is a conception which is not spun out of abstract theory . . . It is the method of freedom. The authority of the government is used to assist men in maintaining the security of an ordered life. The state, though it is powerful, is not the master of the people, but remains, as it must where there is liberty...
...leather horse were all that was needed in Manhattan's Car negie Hall one night last week for two Russian dancers to show what could be done in the way of acrobatics. Time & again the boy jumped half the width of the stage, flicked his heels together, spun on one foot until the audience felt exhausted. Once the girl took a flying leap and the boy caught her by one wrist and pulled her through the air. At the end of two hours the girl was wearing a flaming red cap, the boy a cockade on his chest...
...drop that took sugar out of the luxury class in the 1830's. Such culinary guides as Carême's Maitre d'Hotel francaise, and Ranhofer's Epicurean published elaborate engravings and full directions for making Roman helmets of strawberry ice cream and pistachios, spun-sugar rabbits stuffed with puddings or parfaits, wheelbarrows of pastry filled with sugar roses. The tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece. The Roosevelt Inaugural Cake weighed 110 Ib. and was the product of Mme Blanche (Blanche LeRallec), famed...
...Powerful pumps sucked out all but a few stray molecules of air. The U. S. Coast &; Geodetic Survey measured the tube to within .063 of an inch. Then Dr. Michelson measured it. At one end of the tube was a 32-sided mirror which could be spun as fast as a bacteriologist's centrifuge. Light from this end raced down the tube, back from a reflector at the other end. The mirror was turned just fast enough for succeeding facets to catch the returning light, send it on repeated journeys down the tube and back. The essential calculation...