Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered. Instead, Dr. Leiva, 51 and husky, fell upon the intruder, grappled for his throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...
...length of 275 ft. upon the forest floor. An old burn had apparently unbalanced it, while its roots were loosened by a tiny spring. The great tree's fall smashed it to smithereens, some pieces flying 500 yards. Still stood greatest "General Grant," 40 ft. through the butt...
...Slack's Westinghouse task was to make more permeable windows. A film of glass would serve, were it stout enough to withstand the suction of the Lenard vacuum tubes. Dr. Slack rounds the end of his vacuum tube until it resembles the butt of a test tube. Then he blows the glass to gossamer thinness. A last step is to exhaust the tube. This creates a knob at the tube's end, a knob so frail that when shattered its glassy film floats in air. so stout that it is as strong as steel. Result is that a pressure...
...scatter-brained youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, which was the most hilarious...
...scientific name for redwood. It grows only along a short section of the northern California coast, thriving in the cool, moist air. A relative, but no longer cut commercially, is Sequoia gigantea or "Big Tree." Mature redwoods are also Big Trees-300 ft. high, 30 ft. through the butt...