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Word: buzzsaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nut News | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...fanatical hater of flies. Dose Muffin dies chasing one into a buzzsaw. Ready for burial, Dose jumps up, yells for a flyswatter. When it is brought he lies down again, swats the fly in his coffin, makes no further fuss as the dirt is shoveled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feeler | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Down the block, Blackamoor James Brice was sawing wood with a buzzsaw. The flywheel of James Brice's buzz-saw flew off, sailed over a church, crashed through the roof of a house, decapitated Winnie Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Galoshes | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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