Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week edged over to the curb and stared with amazement at a large, dark man who was calmly walking backwards, carefully avoiding hydrants and baby carriages. When police seized him by the arm and turned him around, he backed away from them, cocked his head over his shoulder, continued walking in reverse...
...shoulder injury to Dave Goodman of the Engineers gave Tudor Gardiner the heavyweight match by default. However, the outcome of the bout was already determined, since the Crimson wrestler was on top from the start until the default...
Driving toward his home on the outskirts of Indianapolis, not in a racing car but in his 1939 Chevrolet sedan, he got off the road on a soft shoulder. The car skidded, hurtled off an embankment, pitched out a man who was as well known to latter-day race fans as were Wishart, De Palma and Rickenbacker before the War. Two days later, as it will to 30,000 far less skillful and less famed motorists in 1939, death came to "Wild Bill" Cummings...
...study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent it back, asking "Why?" Back came the superintendents' reasons, including a junior high school principal's plea that the schools ought not to "shoulder the responsibility of shortening for these little ones, very precious to us, their period of innocent childhood...
...eyes of the community in which it is situated, this will be the initial admission on the part of Harvard as a corporate unit that even a temporary resident must shoulder some of the responsibility for the welfare of the social group in which he spends a part of his time. To be sure members of the University have given generously in the past to the support of the various relief agencies of Cambridge and Boston, but previously they have done so under some regional classification other than that implied by membership in the University. For this reason the organization...