Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fattest in six long years-a billion-dollar crop. After satisfying its own needs of some 650,000,000 bu. and adding 35,000,000 bu. to its depleted carry-over reserve, the U. S. would have perhaps 165,000,000 bu. to toss into the breadbaskets of Europe...
...American League the Yankees were leading the Chicago White Sox by four games on July 4. In the National League the Chicago Cubs had not been headed since June 15. Last week's All-Star game, opened by President Roosevelt's toss from the grandstand, paralleled the league standings in that Yankee players paced the American League play, Cubs paced the National...
...strength, Bull Moore was marvelous. He could fight three men at a time, toss a waiter across the bar of a lunch counter, lift the front wheels of an automobile with one hand. With a slight edge on his appetite, he would break a dozen eggs into his mother's frying pan and eat them in six mouthfuls...
Thunderheads are cumulus clouds which mark the top of a rising column of air. The expansion and cooling of the air as it rises condenses atmospheric moisture, forms the cloud. The air in and around thunderheads is often gusty enough to toss a glider around like a canoe in heavy surf. The top of the cloud is charged with negative electricity, the bottom with positive. When this difference of potential becomes high enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there...
...family Otariidae. The two species found off California are Steller's sea lion (Eumetopias jubata) and the California sea lion (Zalophns californianus). All trained '''seals" in circuses are actually sea lions. True seals, which belong to the family Phocidae cannot be taught to toss or juggle a ball. California sea lions make the best circus performers; the Stellers are too big, too pugnacious. An adult Steller bull weighs 1,500 to 2,000 lb., a cow up to 1,000 lb. California bulls weigh up to 1,000 lb., the cows...