Word: teethed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provision upon which Co-founder Cornell insisted?one more cause of opposition in the "burnt-over district"* ?was that the university should be a place "where persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be eligible to attend." First-President White bore bravely into the teeth of booming gales of religion as well as pedantry to bring to Ithaca such outside figures as James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, George William Curtis, Bayard Taylor, Theodore William Dwight, Goldwin Smith, as lecturers...
...them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy shoulder...
...orange grove near Orlando, Fla., last month, a U. S. Department of Agriculture employe cut open an orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight?maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...
...hands, feet, toes, fingers. Most were baldheaded, most wore eyeglasses. The eyes, deep-set, showed high intelligence. But most eyes showed the shiftiness of neurasthenia, sometimes the glitter of insanity. They all had high, brainy foreheads, thin skulls, prominent narrow noses, prominent chins, small mouths, rotten, few and irregular teeth. Faces were pimply, blotched and lined from organic disease...