Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigaret after another, Miss Jones directed mechanics in attaching to the Cirrus engine of a Moth biplane a muffler of her own invention. As the plane sped along the runway and over the hangars there were noises-of thrumming propeller, snapping pistons, vibrating metal-but there was no bark of exhaust...
...Philadelphian and a gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley gun and giving a gruff bark that meant "Pull!" each time he was ready, knocked the skimming little discs to pieces with dismaying regularity...
...black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank, made not a single grunt. Coyotes, who generally bark when 5 o'clock whistles blow in Manhattan, were fooled by the siren of a fire engine at 4 o'clock, refused to bark again at 5 for the radio audience...
...evening sun dimmed over Admiral Byrd's Little America camp a day last week. Most of the expedition's 42 men were in their tents. A few were outdoors strolling nervously about their ready-packed gear and baggage. A smoke of frost was on the harbor, where their bark, the City of New York, was soon to arrive, to take them away from their 13 months and 25 days of bleakness. Talk was scant...
...handle the product roads have been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree's bark, gather the soft flowing latex, load it into tank cars. This type of worker has no pride in his job, nor does he become devoted to the boss directly over him. Yet last week perhaps a few of the natives working on some 46,000 acres of Goodyear Rubber Plantation...