Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joining one of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's White House press conferences, U. S.-born Mme Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, stately wife of the longtime (1902-24) French Ambassador to the U. S., spun tales of oldtime Washington, likened her native land to "a quiet garden," war, scared Europe to "a crowded omnibus where any passenger can make trouble...
...star talent secured by our contemporary college newspapers aften makes us a bit apologetic about our own home-spun product. Last year the Yale News had an undergraduate columnist of such mettle that recently that paper came forward as publisher of his collected gems at two dollars per copy. Determined to outdo us all, the Daily Princetonian has incorporated Gertrude Stein into its staff. Careful as ever not to appear ostentatious, it does not even advertise its prize, and has made her start from the very botom writing the notice column. Since no one else could have possibly written...
...lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable of a phonograph, giving different optical illusions. Chess playing for a while kept Duchamp from thinking too much about his own ineffectualness, but when he began to win tournaments against professionals he gave that...
...that moment the barn began to roll over & over like a barrel. Racing and climbing, he managed to keep on top of it as it spun in the flood. It struck a house, was smashed to pieces. He leaped at the moment it struck, landed on the roof of the dwelling. Simultaneously its walls caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction...
...cold mist at Grunau, Washington University's eight-oared crew won the gold medal by half a length over Italy and Germany in a breath-taking finish. In Berlin German gymnasts swung, spun and rolled up the impressive winning total of 657,936 points. While the International Basketball Federation, meeting to see what could be done about making the game satisfactory for the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo, vetoed a proposal to limit the height of basketball players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada...