Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto Peltzer, German sprinter, en route to Tokyo with 14 fellow athletes, went for a walk in Warsaw during the train's stopover. Seeing a train start chuffing from the station, he sprinted, caught the last car. swung aboard. It was the wrong train. He missed...
...that," said Commodore Trunnion. "Why not?" asked his wife. "Because I'm not mad," said the Commodore. "Prove it," said Mrs. Trunnion. And this he could not do. Instead, he put her off his ship, made her walk the plank in fact, and went back to his old way of living with Hatchways, his mate, and Fawcett, an able seaman...
...rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went the same distance on the same roads, and even changed from a walk to a trot and back to a walk again at exactly the same places. Daily he read from the Bible...
...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...
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