Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stella H. Adamson was driving Dr. May E. Walker to the cottages which they jointly owned and rented at Lake Tahoe, Calif. Mrs. Adamson's rear tire treads were worn smooth. The pavements were wet. Suddenly the car skidded, slid, spun around, knocked down a telephone pole, ripped out 15 ft. of wire fence and came to a sickening stop in the ditch. Dr. Walker was hurled from her seat with such force that she was jammed jackknife fashion 25 in. through a 15-in. opening in the door...
...Medford, Mass, received six Oriental gold and spun-glass bracelets, mailed to her from Bombay, India, by her aunt Amelia Earhart...
...rich detail he told readers about one Pierre Grantaire who made a good living by raising and selling spiders for the spurious cobwebbing of wine bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam...
Agent Baker stepped up, drew his gun and ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands. Blam! A bullet struck Agent Baker in the back, he spun around to face the bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...
...period, signaled for a substitute and young Jimmy Franks skated out to take his place. Franks was good but not quite good enough, after his teammates had tied the score, to turn back the shot that Babe Siebert, the Canadiens' defense man, sent in so hard that it spun the goalie around when he tried to block it. That made the score 2-to-1. The Red Wings, playing wide open hockey on the chance of catching up, lost their gamble when Gagnon scored his second goal of the game just before it ended, Canadiens 3, Red Wings...