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...Salmon, Idaho, five beavers (Castor canadensis) came downstream on Jesse Creek and built a dam within 100 feet of a site selected by reclamation engineers, thus stabilizing the uncertain water supply and saving the city the cost...
...Commodore" Basil Muse Hatfield, "Admiral of the Trinity River" and "King Castor."Somewhere in his mid-70'S, the Commodore has a rural folklore attached to him that is almost as long as his beloved Trinity valley. According to Gulf Coast legend, he was decorated by the British Government for services during the Boer War, has made and lost two oil fortunes, galloped through a handful of Mexican revolutions and was one of the dupes in the Dr. Cook oil scandal. For the past decade, he has ambled the 500 miles of the Trinity River valley in east Texas...
...model," proclaimed Little John, but he took political cues from Berlin and Rome. He ruthlessly abrogated all civil liberties and constitutional guarantees, created a secret police and Nazified youth organization, filled prisons and concentration camps with political opponents, drove hundreds into exile, purged others with liberal doses of castor oil. Public performance of classical dramas extolling freedom was prohibited and Pericles' funeral oration was banned in schools. He spent the Kingdom's money to build an Army on the Prussian model and to maintain a police force large enough to inspire love of government in the nation...
...aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their own secret formula. But the most commonly used "soups" are over-the-counter concoctions of castor oil, menthenol, alcohol, ether, nitrobenzol and other rapid-burning combustibles. Price per gallon: 75? up. The average miniature car runs a mile on two ounces...
With as much awe as if they were at the Indianapolis race track, 2,500 spectators watched last week's championship race. Round & round the little "hot-irons" whirred-motors whining, sputtering, filling the air with the peculiar odor of burning castor oil, dear to the nose of every auto-racing fan. No one has yet been killed on a Tom Thumb speedway, but accidents are not infrequent. Excited spindizzies have been known to get their arms or legs fractured by a whizzing car; tires have blown off into judges' faces; many cars have blown...