Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, if you're at all chauvinistic, there's Radcliffe. But one rather overdue super patriotism these days what with the Legionnaires in full swing about the Bean City. Wellesley, no doubt, might provide relaxation for Sunday and Monday...
...Starling Burgess, who is also an airplane engineer. With the wealth of the great Vanderbilt syndicate behind him, he worked on theories no one had had a chance to apply before. When he put in an aluminum alloy duralumin metal mast, painted white, sailors called it the "bean blower" and scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight steel tub full of molten metal-"Wood's metal...
...National Bean Marketing Association of Oxnard, Calif.; Ralph Logan Churchill, president...
...livestock co-operative does its own buying and selling. The wool association trades through Draper & Co. of Boston. The bean and pecan organizations are still developing their marketing system...
These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers...