Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presentation meeting it was announced that Dr. Levermore's plan had thus far received 351,256 votes of 401,183 cast in the referendum; also that 15 of the losing plans will soon be published...
...capable cast headed by Norman Trevor and Mrs. Thomas Whiffen demonstrates the author's thesis with keen conviction. Yet probably the most valuable feature of the proceedings is the author's observant photography of the vast sum of little things that go to make up life in an upper middle class family of the Middle West...
Mary Garden: "I told reporters that when I die I want my body cremated and the ashes cast into Lake Michigan 'in front of Chicago.' Said I: 'Think how thrilled the bathers would be to have the ashes of Mary Garden swept up against them. . . But before I die I must get married...
Clothed in the cast-off garments of Apollo, with a crown of bay generally askew, strumming at intervals a tuneless lyre, the genius of the paper has lived on unchallenged and unchallenging while its mascot Pegasus has remained fast tethered in his stall...
...salvage operations in his factories are said to be unusually efficient and complete, and productive of great economies. According to a recent report, the salvage squad of 417 men dispose each day of 392 tons of steel trimmings, 190 tons of baled steel, and 153 tons of cast iron borings. In addition, it saves about 91/2 tons of paper, several tons of miscellaneous metals and other material, and about 2,000 gallons of oil. Much of this material, which would otherwise be wasted, is used in various ways, often by repairing it. Among other savings each year is metallic silver...