Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m.p.h.) the Andersons went round & round the 80-acre field, cutting the golden stalks to beige stubble. Once an hour they stopped and Harold Robb came alongside with the truck. Into it spilled about 70 bushels of grain from each machine. Harold Robb drove the truck back to the barn. There Frank Anderson had built a private elevator (capacity 12,000 bushels), with cemented interior and motored conveyor...
...County these days at about 7 o'clock, but there is light enough for another hour of work. By 8 o'clock, after the tarpaulins had been thrown over the engines, Frank Anderson and his helpers were too tired to talk about being tired. Back at the barn, Frank milked again, while Jack fed the horse and slopped the pigs. Then the men fell to Zula's thick round steak, fried potatoes, tomatoes, lemon-meringue...
Dorothea Natwick in 1923 plays tennis and flirts with a young libertine, falls in love with a stalwart Progressive from Idaho, and decides to marry the scholarly son of a proud Boston family. The Natwicks, far advanced in airy snobbery, give their clever daughter away at a barn party. Seventeen years later Dorothea's beauty is at its height; she presides over half the gracious living in Cambridge and, at its heart, entertains The Little Group of faculty intellectuals...
...Please Shut Up!" The off-hour activities were almost as arduous as the business sessions. Bellboys rushed velvet, satin or brocade evening gowns to & from the cleaners (average tip: 10?); elevator operators coped with breathless indecision. There was a barn dance and a moonlight boat ride to Waukegan...
...vast U.S. black market in meat has cut deep into stocks of insulin, adrenaline, liver concentrates, pituitary extracts and other vital drugs. Obvious reason: the behind-the-barn slaughterers throw away the organs and glands normally sold by regular packers to drug makers. Sample results: 1) a Schering Corp. agent combed Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson for 200 lbs. of sheep pituitary, found just 22 lbs.; 2) American Home Products Corp., needing 1,000 lbs. of pancreas monthly, has been able to buy only 700 lbs. all year. Shortages are just short of dangerous...