Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks unity but even so is a brilliant collection of facts, much easier to remember and much more interesting than the deftest spoken lecture. Best shots: an ant getting down into the ant-heap with a splinter ten times as big as itself; a Pirhana fish, no bigger than your hand, eating 120 Ib. of pork in six minutes...
...crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park, N. J., to Dearborn, Mich...
Dick Black, captain of the 1928 Dartmouth much-battered football team, while playing ping-pong last week, was severely injured by running a large splinter into his forearm. He was put in the infirmary...
...which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What wooden cars it owned then, it has gradually been retiring. Last year 559 went into the discard. Last week went the rest, when Pennsylvania directors authorized...
While the pet lay stark under ether anesthesia. Dr. Hartman maneuvered a pair of long, thin forceps down the animal's throat until he caught hold of the splinter of bone. Fifteen minutes of delicate, painstaking work, and the bone came out. The dog, although greatly weakened by the ordeal, will recover...