Word: spiraled
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...freaks in the lobby. And ducking into the wings with the last salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head to foot. Sweat trickled down his nose and cheeks, dripped from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair while an attendant pulled off the dusty boots, Clyde Beatty, the most celebrated trainer of lions...
...University of Chicago fullback; by his own hand (gas); in Chicago. Chicago's only 13-letter man, Fullback Herschberger was the first Midwestern player named to Walter Camp's All-America football team (1898), first footballer to be x-rayed after an injury, reputedly first to spiral a punt, never weighed over...
...high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework the whole weight of the statue hangs. Not bronze is Liberty's skin but hand-hammered sheets of pure copper about the thickness of a silver dollar. Each sheet is anchored to an iron strap...
...need of relief is bullnecked, freckle-browed Reginald Marsh, whose two panels, one showing muscular workmen loading mail from spiral chutes to a waiting train, the other of an ocean liner transferring mail to a tender in New York harbor, were the first to be completed, set up and accepted in the new Washington Post Office Department Building in Washington...
...quick! it is already 12, Down the spiral and by the Chapel to Harvard Hall. Russia is getting a jump on the world. Look at your globe. It is shorter to fly over the North Pole from Moscow to San Francisco than to follow the old paths. In June a Soviet plane will try that route. Grim, nevertheless Stalin is raising a hubbub among the international lawyers the world over; for what does the Soviet Government do but claim even the pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump...