Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought that was good pay until he learned that the man next to him was getting the same wage after 35 years. Then he quit. In Denmark he had worked in a bicycle plant and he now became bench hand in the John R. Keim Mills at Buffalo, a bicycle factory which was branching into automobile parts. In less than four years he was assistant manager; in five, manager. When Henry Ford bought the Keim Mills in 1911, "Bill" Knudsen found himself, like many another oldtime bicycle man, in the stripling automobile industry...
Upon the Supreme bench of the U. S. sits no man more learned in the law than the senior Associate Justice, bald Willis Van Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
...from the station's till were gone when his mother found Harlen Pitts still kneeling, one of his hands clamped in a vise, the other held firmly to the bench by a large nail driven through the palm...
...filling station at Land O'Lakes, Wis. one night last week, Harlen Pitts, the 20-year-old attendant, turned to serve two men who had ordered gasoline. Something hard crashed against the back of his skull. Next thing he knew he was kneeling at a bench in the garage next door. Dizzily he tried to get up, discovered he could not. Something was holding his hands. He lost consciousness again...
...Crimson had a great advantage over the Red and Blue outfit at the center post. Bill Gray, towering over the Quaker pivot-man, won the jump with clock-like regularity while he was in action. During the time he spent on the bench John Herrick carried on just as effectively...