Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads are glad tidings for diggers...
...would have to do better. Said he: "For the last six months, in every plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the low-down facts on the business ... I think they are entitled to know. I know that if I were back at the bench working I would want to know a darned sight more than I was told. Forty-five years ago, they told me nothing...
...depression, noisy prophets had been springing up along the Pacific Coast to lead the aged in holy wars on the nearest state treasury. They were an odd lot-power-hungry Communists, vote-hungry politicos, sharp-eyed promoters and croupy and lugubrious old bucks with top-heavy cargoes of park-bench economics. They herded the "senior citizens" into irascible pressure groups, made pensions a permanent political issue, and damned those who opposed them as monsters who would starve their own grandmothers...
...turned to jeers. There were persistent reports of feuds on the club, and tempers were frayed. One story was that Center Fielder Jim Russell and First Baseman Earl Torgeson had socked a couple of critics in a hotel-room brawl; in any case, Russell turned up on the bench with a pair of shiners and Torgeson with an injured thumb...
Soft Blue Walls. Between lectures and educational movies, wide-eyed mothers & fathers stared at the refurbished classrooms with their soft blue walls and off-white ceilings, newly varnished floors, took in the fluorescent fixtures, sleekly comfortable seats and desks. Comparing them with the kerosene-lit, bench-lined rooms still familiar in Arkansas' rural areas, they asked: "Why can't we have this all the time?" and "How much does it cost...