Word: chiselling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before gas rationing began, rubber was wearing out at the rate of 3½% a month. For the sake of rubber, if not for the sake of gas itself, the whole country is likely soon to face gas rationing. Like the East, it will probably grouse a bit and chisel a bit, for men do not like to have their habits forcibly changed. But in no other country in the world does gas shortage mean half so drastic a change in the basic pattern of human life, and grousing and chiseling are far different things from a storm of opposition...
...Berkeley, Calif., a burglar who knew his current events stole a silk dress, a silk step-in combination, a silk chemise, five pairs of silk stockings, a pair of satin pajamas, and two pairs of nylon stockings. In Indianapolis, a burglar made off with 11?, left his cold chisel, jimmy and shirt...
...rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...
...botanists new conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...
...only sound near the top of 10,000-ft. Mount Alagi one morning last week was the chink of a chisel on stone-two workmen were carving a name into a crude headstone. Most of the graves were marked only by rough wooden crosses, hacked from ammunition boxes; beside each cross was a half-buried wine bottle, with the deceased's identification papers crammed in. The workmen, glad to be alive, chipped somberly among the graves of men who had done their brave best...