Word: cart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire broke out in a janitor's pushcart on the second floor of the Biology building at 2 p.m. yesterday. The Cambridge Fire Department said last night that the fire, which caused minor damage was started by a lighted match thrown into the cart...
...shifted his wad of chewing gum, announced his decision: "O.K., sister. Go through." After they had gone a little way, the G.I. shouted at them to wait. He disappeared behind a farmhouse for a moment and came back on a cart pulled by a team of horses. "Get in," he said to the two frightened women. "You've walked enough by the look of you. You're going to ride...
...Hugh Smyth and raped his wife Joan, had extorted 100s, from a Margaret Kyng and a William Hales and 20s. from a John Mylner, had broken into Hugh Smyth's place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth ?4, and 335 sheep." Sir Thomas, it appeared from the records, had also twice looted the Cistercian Abbey of Blessed Mary at Coombe and at least twice escaped from jail...
Last week, Washington's war planners were talking a lot tougher, e.g., by mid-1951 automobile production might be cut back as much as 50%, television production as much if not more. But the Washington planners were still putting the cart before the horse. Even in a state of full mobilization there is little sense in cutting back civilian production until actual war orders are issued. Premature cutbacks will merely cause layoffs and the closing of plants and in the end, U.S. production will be hurt more than helped. Once war orders go out in big enough volume, civilian...
Just at that point a cousin conveniently died, leaving Fry a small legacy and enabling him to start work on his first important play, The Boy with a Cart, a pageant celebrating the 50th anniversary of a village church, and The Tower, another pageant, on the history of Tewkesbury Abbey. Both plays recalled the manner, if not the grandeur, of T. S. Eliot's religious pageant, The Rock; they also showed a humor and a lyricism that was Fry's own. Eliot himself was impressed by The Tower. Another pageant by Fry, Thursday's Child, was performed...