Word: barns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...program a Southerner can run on and get elected." To do it he had mortgaged his home in Orangeburg to buy the trailer, had sunk every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote the old maxim "It's not how you stand, but how you run," were ready to wager that the voters would easily remember Hugo Sims...
...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...
...Gaver thought so too. What he didn't want to do was to run Capot in the Special against a Calumet entry of Coaltown and Ponder-with Coaltown setting a murderous pace and Ponder coming from behind in the stretch. By threatening to keep his horse in the barn, Gaver forestalled that possibility...
...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...