Word: bin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best line in "Mourning Becomes Electra" is the one which some neurotic speaks to the gardener: "Well, Seth, you bin with the Manons a long time." HOWARD M. JONES, Cambridge, Mass...
Away from London last week slunk snubbed Emperor Haile Selassie (see p. 18), but glad British hands were extended by King Edward and many another in London to His Highness Sheik Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, ruler of the Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf of Iran...
...myself and wife from a winter's cruise in Illinois, I proceeded to empty the ashes in my furnace which Fred had attended to during our absence. I was puzzled to see no fresh ashes on the dump or any evidence of ashes except that the coal (anthracite) bin was nearly empty. "Can't I have those ashes?" asked Fred. "Sure, but what do you want them for?" I countered. "I want to feed them to my hogs," quoth Fred. "Go way back and sit down," I remarked testily. "Come and see," said Fred. He took a basketful...
...Depression. A large part of the profits have been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner...
...director of an international school of Mexican archeology, has recently received than institute's entire collection. Attired in a white duster he is now actively engaged in Peabody sorting the shipment. None of the materials is to be exhibited but will be put aside for use in the dust bin...