Word: carting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a quake hits them again, it will certainly upset the Mikado's apple cart," Landsberg said. "Most of the dwellings in Tokyo and Yokohoma are flimsy, wooden things. It would take months of concentrated bombing to equal that damage inflicted by a sudden release of the tremendous energy stored in the bowels of the earth...
Mail Tale. In Washington, D.C., somebody stole a mailman's cart, delivered all his letters for him. In Boise, Idaho, a mailman listened to his portable radio as he walked his route. In Lynn, Mass., a mailman delivered a post card addressed to "Harry Baker and Robert See, Telephone Manhole, corner of Oxford and Washington...
...discovers what his ears are good for-flying. This time he takes off from his window high in the burning building like an angry dive-bomber, turning, banking, looping the loop, and finally machine-gunning the other performers with peanuts sucked into his trunk from the vendor's cart...
...Lyman, second team blocking back, suffered a bump on the leg and left the field in an H.A.A. cart. It is not thought, however, that his injury is serious. Others on the sick list include ends Bill Barnes and Johnny Farley, but both are expected to be back in a few days at the most...
...Capitol were already occupied by such rival historical scenes as The Battle of Chapultepec and Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way. One Capitol picture, however, Carpenter's dignified First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, failed to fill its wall space. So the commission decided to cart it off to the old Supreme Court chamber and replace it with the space-filling Christy...