Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...butt in an ashtray nor a buzz on the phone...
...carelessly tossed cigarette butt was the probable cause of a $1500 blaze on the top floor of Thayer Hall Friday morning, fire department officials announced...
...Marlboro, S.C. Confederate officer, he began his political career with a congressional clerkship during Cleveland's second administration. As Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was the first to fail at Prohibition enforcement. As Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, the oldtime Methodist dry became a butt of brain-trusters, but did a good job of placating big business with speeches as tasty as the famous watermelons he served visiting politicos...
...Department's colossal headquarters building across the Potomac from Washington was no longer the $85,000,000 butt of jokes by capital wags. The Pentagon building was a focus of statistical bewilderment: population capacity 40,000; a telephone switchboard big enough for a city of 125,000; enough pavement for a 24-ft. roadway 49 miles long, including parking space for 8,000 cars...
...wheel of a Clipper model Packard and drove to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. There he encased himself in the beard and trappings of an ancient czar. Exactly one hour after his arrival, Ezio Pinza, with a regal bearing that scattered stagehands right & left, stubbed out the butt of a lighted cigaret and strode through the wings as Boris Godunoff...