Word: big
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twice as big as a horse should be the size of Margaret F. Maclntyre, 23, physiology assistant at Goucher College (Baltimore) if only her rate of breathing were considered. The bigger an animal, the slower it breathes. A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only...
...inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard...
Prosperous and slender, with light hair, big eyes, the hollow cheeks common to runners and the round skull common to Poles, Petkiewicz had journeyed over at his own expense. Runners who are being paid for by some club may only compete for 21 days, but Petkiewicz may stay as long as he likes-long enough to get used to board tracks, on which he has never contested. He studies law in the University of Warsaw. He wears a conventional grey coat, carries a sable to put on when the wind is chilly. He holds every Polish middle-distance record from...
...crowds at billiard tournaments are never very big, but Rudolph and Greenleaf had another audience which followed their contest in newspapers and discussed it in doorways-the enormous and tremendously expert audience of U. S. pool players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on a sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly...
When the Revolution came he was a big man. He corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot wrote a verse about him: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis-"He has snatched from heaven the thunderbolt and the scepter from tyrants." Ladies kissed him. Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented...