Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this alliance was struck up. Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
...requisition the other day for a barrel of soap and a gross of safety razor blades. It seemed out of proportion, but "ours not to reason...
...Semi-automatic shot gun, shooting eight shells (usually buckshot). The barrel is shortened to permit easy handling, wide pattern of shot. The Winchester and Remington companies manufacture many such for policemen...
...crew of the whaler Lansing were killing whales at an average rate of two per day and lashing them alongside for scientists to cut from the base of the whale brains the whale pituitary glands. After each operation, the carcass was set adrift, the small gland pitched into a barrel. When the Lansing returns, Dr. Max S. Dunn will attempt to analyze whale pituitaries into their constituent elements to discover what agency or force causes whale tissue to assume such prodigious proportions, perhaps what agency or force is the source of all animal structure and life. Possible "usefulness": a better...
...gust of wind blew out the storm doors and plate glass front of the Goldfield Hotel at Tonopah. Nobody cared. There was a fresh "strike" at Barrel Springs, five miles from Weepah. The rushers swerved thence, eddied back, chattered, milled around, boasted, dreamed...