Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
Even today almost every San Francisco businessman has his favorite among the penny shares of the Mining Exchange. Located at No. 327 Bush Street, it is one of the few U. S. exchanges that still cling to the old custom of calling off the full stock list 'at the opening of each daily session. After that, trading in the usual manner begins. There are no posts on the floor, each broker having his booth against the wall. All sessions are open to the public and only a low railing divides the visitors' gallery from the trading floor...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...spent a week in the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai, on the traditional site of the burning bush (not "atop Mount St. Catherine'': Mount St. Catherine is the adjoining peak); and there learned the facts concerning the Codex Sinaiticus. These are at variance with the conventional story, which you summarize in your issue...
...Some scholars believe that this peak rather than the modern Mt. Sinai, is the site of the burning bush through which God spoke to Moses. Because Mount St. Catherine is high, dry and dustless, the Smithsonian Institution now has a solar observatory thereon...