Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stowaway. In New Orleans, Adam Hanks was finally relieved of the mysterious "stomach trouble" that had bothered him for nearly 34 years when doctors operated and extracted an old knife blade from his back...
...could employers understand why economic interests should not be paramount now. The war had ended like the fall of a guillotine blade; let reconversion come as speedily. Already the dammed-up orders from a goods-starved world were flowing...
Douglas MacArthur paid no noticeable attention. He announced that the 700-year-old blade once sported by General Tomoyuki Yamashita was being sent out to West Point. Annapolis will get the sword once carried by Vice Admiral Denshichi Okochi...
...bought a 600-pound experimental celery transplanter last spring (one of two being used in the U.S. for experimentation), converted it for tomato planting. The transplanter carries enough water in two drums to irrigate 1,000 plants, has a two-winged blade for digging trenches and flanged wheels for closing them. He showed his labor-saving machine to all & sundry, showed that it could plant at least twice as much as the old back-breaking hand method. But his big selling point was profits. Hudson told the farmers that they could make from two to four times more per acre...
Chief feature of the disorder is a small, tender, fibrous nodule under the skin near the top of the victim's shoulder blade...