Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept working the boy's chest up and down, inflation, deflation. That was no longer a fellow human under their hot, aching hands. The ribs below their throbbing fingers became the wobbly staves of a poorly coopered barrel. Still they pushed, for 108 hours. Then they stopped. The barrel had caved...
...integrity, the beauty of a well-knit body and the fundamental character essential to a good craftsman. . . . His bronzes . . . should appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world...
...There is always the pork barrel method of spending the surplus...
John Shedd yielded. Later that afternoon the suspicious storekeeper, coming up from the cider barrel in the cellar, discharged him. He went to another town, got another job. Five years later he found himself in Chicago asking work from Marshall Field of Field, Leiter...
...feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon gases which are then yalved into the motor in the ordinary way. An 80% reduction in fuel cost for light trucks was claimed. The truck could carry fagots enough for a 60-mile run without stopping; could refuel with anything driftwood, barrel staves, roots, cigar boxes...