Word: carting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic, to assert his independence by running away to the cemetery, but as the little cart on which he propelled himself could only move in a circle, he never got there. Aunt Tirelo, like David Copperfield's Mr. Dick, was engaged on an endless historical work, proving that the sorrows of France were the fault of Marie Antoinette. Monsieur Jarridge, a notary, was in charge...
...they are bound to become a little exhilarated and need the steady guidance of a section man who can present the subject in clear and interesting terms. Too often at present section men are chosen solely because they are Ph.D. candidates and need assistantships. This is placing the cart before the horse for the necessary teaching ability may be completely lacking...
...omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
...DEATH FROM STARVATION IN A SOVIET HAY CART...
Although he worked on a community farm, where food was plentiful, this peasant died of starvation. He had crawled into his little hay cart to rest from his forced labor and never woke...