Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class behind. A powerful man of 200 lb., he knocked the wind out of President Hoover in one of the medicine-ball games last month. For two days little Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium (see p. 21), bore a red mark on his nose after attempting to catch one of Justice Stone's mighty throws. The Stone roughness was sufficient to cause protests to the President; reminders that, after...
...opus was a "Brib-ery Budget!" After that-cripple or no cripple-it was Parliamentary war to the knife. Not unnaturally, Mr. Churchill, a man of flesh and gusto, who looks as if he had never spent a sick day in his life, watched keenly for a chance to catch his enemy off guard. Swaying on his canes, Mr. Snowden worked himself up to a pitch of spleen, harked back to the old debt settlements made by Chancellor Churchill with France and Italy, declared them to have involved far too heavy a British sacrifice, and fairly shouted...
...first place, daylight saving begins next week and it would prove amusing during an idle hour or so to figure out once more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...
...little chance of seeing how one of the boys from home looks on the gridiron as he has of observing Achilles among the shades. Of course if he waits till Saturday, pays the proper amount of money, and has remembered his field glasses, he can catch a glimpse or two, but by that time what the British refer to as the "funsomeness" of the sport has departed...
...chin. The redness spreads over the entire body, except around the mouth which becomes a clownish white. The infection frequently spreads to the inner ears and kidneys, causing great trouble. Upon convalescence the skin scales and peels off. Children between two and ten years are most susceptible. They catch it usually from infected children breathing moistly in their faces...