Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the welcome news had swooped and skittered on the horizon like a distant barn swallow. This week, rumor became fact. Bethlehem Steel Co., the nation's second greatest steel producer, had come to terms with Philip Murray's striking C.I.O. United Steelworkers...
...Heart of Gold," concerns a starving Broadway actress and her whole starving company, who attempt to open a summer theater in a barn, left to the actress by a philanthropic aunt. The plot evolves around the fun and games the actors have with the sheriff and local motion picture theater owners...
...University's first observatory. A skeptical classics professor reported to a friend that "there is a caboose set upon the roof with a telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all the chambers in the neighborhood." Not all the views were unobstructed, however. A local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right of way in the roof and chop a hole through it to maintain the sight...
...once-fevered ankle was ice cold and sound as a dollar. The trouble was that during his long wait on the shelf, Citation had developed a brood mare's belly, the neck of a bull and a rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop at 6 a.m. and another an hour...
...hold off the moderns indefinitely. They hope to do more than that: to create a summer center as renowned in art as the Berkshires' Tanglewood festival is in music. Plans are under way for a huge, round exhibition hall and theater patterned on 18th Century Vermont's barns, to make next year's exhibition bucolic inside & out. Artist Fausett, who helped hang last week's show, was particularly pleased with the idea. In a round barn, he mused, no one could complain of being hung in a corner...