Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplicant walnut men, the University of California's College of Agriculture invented a machine in which the walnuts ride on whizzing belts past a buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...
...live in this cruel, fascinating age. There was work to be done. The land had been cleared, tilled, peopled; it had been mechanized and industrialized. Silent, sullen breadlines had replaced the noise of stage-coaches and saloons; the shouts of congressional orators had given way to the quiet buzz of committee rooms. The pioneers and their heroics were laid to nest.: America had been made and it was being remade...
...young men sat down to telephones one morning last week in the office of County Treasurer Horace G. Lindheimer in Chicago, began to dial. Their assignment was to buzz every one of 4,000 delinquent personal property taxpayers, who owed Cook County $1,000 or more. Results at day's end: 171 responses, 129 promises, seven complaints that the taxes were too high, one part payment which amounted to less than the day's telephone bill ($25). Meantime, in another part of Treasurer Lindheimer's office, another crew of assistants was busy -without any lack of success...
Divorced. Oliver Burgess ("Buzz") Meredith. 29, actor (Winterset, High Tor) ; by his second wife, Margaret Perry, 25, actress (Strictly Dishonorable); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...Bill Rowe. After a year at 7, Bill Dearborn is again occupying this position. Bill Huenekins at 6 and Jack Radway at 5 didn't reach the seconds last year. John Senior at 4 rowed 5 on last year's combination crew. Dick Nine will be at 3, Buzz Hovey at 2, and Harry Locke...