Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
...Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
Last week in Philadelphia, after a month of deliberation, Pennsylvania's Superior Court returned a 6-to-1 decision for the appellant. Ruled Judge Thomas J. Baldridge in the majority opinion: ''Because this chicken did not have its freedom it does not follow that the act of the appelant was cruel and done recklessly, without regard to consequences. Horses and cows are kept in stalls, especially during the winter, for indefinite periods, and have no more opportunity to move than this chicken...
...from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs which propel the whole structure forward...
...patents were granted by the Cabinet, signed by the President. On July 4, 1836, Andrew Jackson signed an act creating, as part of the Department of State, a separate Patent Office headed by a commissioner.* First patent under this jurisdiction went to Senator John Ruggles of Maine, for a system of cog gears...