Word: basketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their ancestors than Indians themselves know. He has a young son, Deric, who gets on well with Indians and has written a book about them.* The elder Nusbaum likes to go picking into dirty old caves, and if he finds a bit of painted pottery or a woven basket he is as happy as if he had found a chunk of turquoise in a matrix of silver. He docs not go nosing into an Indian's private affairs. If he happens to see a flask of harmless whiskey, he may tell the fellow to throw it away...
...When the child Hardy was born," said he, "the doctor thought him dead and dropped him in a basket. That was an anxious moment for this country. But a woman stepped forward to make sure, and found he was alive. A statue to this woman-Kennington could have done worse than to give us that...
...What interests me still more is this: was Hardy shamming in the basket? If so, it was the only time in his life he ever shammed. Yet, knowing what we do of him now, we may think that at his first sight of life he liked it so little he lay very still. There was never any more faltering. An undaunted mind-that was Hardy. He was a great man. That was his hard fate." ¶ Last week from England's Lake District came another literary incident. A Mrs. Jane Jefferson of Youngstown, Ohio, went to Cockermouth...
...proprietor did not have that much in his till, but he helped the Cavigliolis collect it from the guests. By now it was getting late. Caviglioli & nephews retreated to the mountains but their luck still held. On the way back they met a party of motorists enjoying a basket picnic. The Cavigliolis collected watches, jewelry, money and the picnic basket...
...eggs was damaged. Their fall, from an airplane 3,300 ft. high, was a demonstration of a new parachute designed by Soviet experts. Developed to support only small loads, the chute was of conventional design, but with a rubber hood affixed over its basket. The hood fills with air and expands in descent, decreasing the rate of fall to about 16.4 ft. per sec. (Ordinary rate of fall of U. S. made parachutes with a man of average weight: 18 to 20 ft. per sec. Force of landing is equivalent to a free jump from...