Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall separating the front and back rooms a ¼ h.p. electric motor runs a fan that cools off the front room. And off the other end of the motor, someone installed a shoe brush with brown polish...
...south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...
With a bottle of rice wine, a can of kerosene, a sharp knife, he went far into the brush. Fortifying himself with the wine, he sloshed kerosene over the tindery brush, lit it, then made an earnest effort to disembowel himself...
Result: ten college girls and eight boys last week were hacking their way, with axes, brush hooks and mattocks, up a wooded mountainside, building a truck trail for fire fighting, clearing the way to a new mountain park where Wyoming Valley coal miners might go to picnic and play. The Valley was thoroughly mystified. So were some 40 other U.S. communities where 800 high-school and college students set up similar work camps this summer and paid $50 to $100 each for a chance to do constructive work...
Divorced. By Novelist Katharine Brush (Red Headed Woman, Young Man of Manhattan) : Broker Hubert Charles Winans, her second husband ; in Reno. Three three-year trial marriages in which they dated each other from separate apartments worked out all right, so three years ago they moved in together. Three years together led to Reno...