Word: stooping
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...most astounding inventions in recent years has been the development and application of the photo-electric cell. We turn into our drive-way, approach the garage, cross an invisible beam of light, and the garage doors open before us. We stoop over a drinking fountain, and a invisible hand turns on the water...
Tell us, please, did Professor Wieland actually stoop to plagiarism in the heat of his controversy with Secretary Ickes or did TIME'S Science editor err in identifying an apt quotation as an "original composition...
...more serious to use such flippancy about a government for which many are dying in its defense. It is bad enough that the world democracies permit Dictators Mussolini and Hitler to attack a defenseless Republican and liberal government-but for a great publication such as TIME to stoop to sly innuendos is inexcusable...
...serious of British professionals, he is nervous and temperamental. He offends associates by his indifference to P. G. A. edicts and his frank money-making zeal. On the course he is apt to tear up his card when his game slips, explode over camera clicks and yelping dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper is touchy. Self-made son of an English schoolmaster, he has practiced hours before a mirror. During important tournaments...
...stoop. Start from the foot-forward, scissors position. Bend one knee until it almost touches the floor. Bend the other knee less. To pick up anything use the hand on the side of the lower knee, simultaneously swinging the other arm to the rear for counterbalance...