Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlook for the Princeton game was further darkened when it was learned that Bob Jones, first string center, and a bulwark in the middle of the line, is in the Infirmary with a sore throat. Although the medical staff held out some hope that Jones might start, Coach Dick Harlow is not too optimistic. Tim Russell will get the starting call in Jones' absence...
...levitation. However, he did something which was fairly a test of his capacity, for he drank a teaspoonful of undiluted nitric acid. It was not his nitric acid, but some supplied from our college laboratory. He drank first about a wineglassful of water and then poured down his throat the nitric acid (our own students on all sides of him) and then washed it down with another wineglassful of water. This was pure nitric acid, and anyone who knows what that is will understand what that means. I wonder whether any of the various gentlemen who have written...
...Edwin Pew, 58, lifelong newshawk who in 1912 helped organize the United Press, onetime (1919-22) manager of Hearst's International News Service from which he resigned "on principle," from 1924 until his retirement last June (TIME, June 15) editor and vice president of Editor & Publisher; after a throat operation; in Manhattan...
...then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must not be thrust down the national throat by a slavishly subservient Congress, until the country has changed the Constitution after careful reflexion...
...string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both the hare's boast and his own. Once, when he stopped to put imported gasoline into his car and imported mineral water down his own throat, Count Brivio took the lead. Nuvolari, on his way again long before anyone else could catch up, took it back after the next lap, kept it to the end. After his 75th trip around the four-mile course - at 150 m.p.h. down the straightaway, less than 40 m.p.h. around the hairpin turns...