Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving 1,400,000 miles without accident or arrest Allen Bush Hill, 55, of Corpus Christi, Tex., was last week awarded a $150 Elgin watch and the title "World's Safest Truck Driver" by the American Trucking Associations.* During the 30 years it took him to establish the record, he averaged 46,600 miles per year, not counting nine months driving with the A. E. F.'s Fifth Engineers. More than a quarter of his mileage was covered in one G. M. C. truck. Driver Hill advised: "Give all the road you can, take all they...
...momentous day Mr. Pinkle was walking and meditating about his continuous failure to remember that his employer had a wife; thrice he had embarrassed his position and his employer by asking her for a date. So with a pathetic expression he picked a leaf off the berry-bearing bush whose branches intruded over the sidewalk. Something snapped in his brain. He liked pulling this leaf from this bush. He pulled another and another until he had a palmful. He resumed walking, putting one leaf in his month. The taste pleased him. He chewed on it for a while, ejected...
...cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
...smooth the path to the Dean's office, workmen will be pounding away at the steps of University Hall with bush hammers for the next few days. The surface of the slippery steps, which has been the cause of a flying tumble for many is being chopped into little ridges...
...last week President J. A. Robert Quinn of the Boston Bees (onetime Braves) called a group of sportswriters into his office to add an item to the Stengel legend. All of them understood that President Quinn's first two choices for manager of the Bees were Donie Bush, manager of the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, and Gabby Hartnett, catcher for the Chicago Cubs, who for a brief period last summer, managed the Cubs while they were topping the National League. But neither of them was available. So President Quinn picked up his telephone and asked the operator...