Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something of the spirit in which I believe your editorial was written. It may not, as Professor Langer demonstrates, accord with the facts, but there was certainly much about the course to exasperate the student. The combination of assignments of considerable, though not for this university unique, length, with breath-taking and nerve-wracking examinations and a considerable strictness in correcting and grading appealed more to gambling instincts than to anything else. There was at times a pleasant exhilaration about it, but it readily gave place to discouragement, even for a person who considered himself at least passably prepared...
...Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...
...bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily on the piquancy of Victorian underwear. She also says: "I often sit and wonder what one could do nowadays to be declasse...
...Kizhuyak Bay, Alaska, one Anton Larson, 68, lost his false teeth as he pulled his boat's anchor out of ten fathoms of water. He dropped the anchor, took a deep breath, pulled himself down the chain to the bottom, rescued the teeth...
...were measured, answered questions on law, diplomacy, U. S. history, the number of dogs in Chicago. This procedure eliminated all but 21 who were sent into another room, made to chase imaginary dogs in a hypothetical back yard. One Philip Keafta, who had chinned himself 45 times, held his breath 45 seconds, ran about the room, tripped on a taut wire hazard, fell and broke his ankle. He was qualified, however, and when he emerges from the hospital will, be s City Dog Catcher, salary $2,200 a year...