Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port. In Belmont, Calif., a dog named Pando, trapped in a burning house, scurried to the bathroom, plunged into the toilet bowl, was found safe & sound after the house had burned down...
...noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
...Stankowich (the name of No. 15): "I am very much alive, and I don't think there is any explanation of what a woman will do when she is very much alive." Feeling Seedy. In Wichita, Mrs. Mil dred Braley learned what happened to her bowl of nasturtium seeds when her test-pilot husband rose heavily from the table, commented: "I can't say I think much of your new brand of breakfast cereal." Bushed. In Los Angeles, Edward Jones tossed $400 into a clump of bushes just before holdup men grabbed...
...Ford County, on the fringe of the onetime dust bowl, ten million bushels of wheat were in fabulous prospect. So far everything was wonderful; the waving golden ocean of wheat had been estimated on May i at 150,000,000 bu. for all Kan sas; by June 1 the crop looked more like 165,000,000 bu. 20,000,000 bu. more than last year. By night, with stubby pencils the Ford County farmers reckoned their profits, at a bumper prospect of 30 bu. an acre. They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year...
Wealthy absentee landlords - often in ca hoots with local warlords and bandits -have reduced China's millions to a primitive struggle for a daily bowl of rice. The measure of Chiang's greatness, says Gayn, of his rise in stature from warlord to national leader, will be his readiness to take up the struggle against his old confreres - the political bosses and the land lords. "If [he] succeeds he will truly be come one of the world's great figures...