Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mica schist outcropping on Bear Hill with the garnets set so thickly in it, that in parts they compose 85% of the whole by weight, and the seam is expected to average 60%. Mr. Ford's engineers are still exploring the deposit, drilling holes into the hard garnets which blunt the steel drills used, with astonishing rapidity. In addition the outcropping is being blasted and carried away. The explosive readily fractures the mica which binds the garnets together and sends the stones flying. Many a carload is shipped away to Mr. Ford's glass plants...
...Pulaski, Va., one D. M. Nickels, farmer, preacherman and Bible reader, was offended by the behavior of his right hand. He forthwith laid this member on a chopping block, took a blunt hatchet in his left, hacked...
...Coolidge called in correspondents and let them know in unusually blunt language, that he did not approve of the suggestion of Sir Josiah Stamp at the Brussels meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce (see Page 5), that the U. S. reduce its tariffs and curtail production in order to facilitate German reparations payments. He regarded such an act as making this country pay reparations and partly cancel debts owing...
...Senators, M. Caillaux was blunt...
...Hamilton, Ont., a boardinghouse keeper clumped upstairs, knocked upon the door of an apartment rented by some Hungarians, received no answer. She called in an assistant, who burst down the door. There were the Hungarians -two male, one female-struck down, their skulls crushed by some, blunt instrument. On the body of one of the men a small kitten smilingly sunned itself...