Word: chopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown's School Days is a book more people have heard of than read. Its author, Thomas Hughes, was Englis has a mutton chop. Chief interests of his life were cricket and Utopia...
...Fadette Women's Orchestra" (named after the heroine of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette) barnstormed up & down the U. S. on Lyceum courses and vaudeville circuits, grossed more than half a million dollars before disbanding in 1920. Since Maestra Nichols first started swinging her mutton-chop sleeves many a woman's orchestra has been heard in the land. Since few U. S. symphony orchestras hire women players, female fiddlers and cellists who are not good enough to be soloists have no other place to play...
Stan Shaw's sponsors now number eleven, have been as many as 14. They and the studio net him between $7,500 and $10,000 a year. In his first year he broadcast ten chop-licking plugs a night to the lunchroom circuit for doughnuts and buns made by Fischer Baking Co. Sample "It's permissible to dunk Fischer's doughnuts up to the second knuckle." In that year Fischer's opened two new branches, added 19 new delivery routes. His first sponsor, in 1935, was Krueger Brewing Co. In 25 days, with no other advertising...
...fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side...
...into lactic and acetic acids, which inhibit bacterial action, keep the fodder from rotting. Untreated hay, wet or not, rots in a silo because it is so low in carbohydrate content that the alkaline products of fermentation overcome the effect of the acids. Monsanto's technique is to chop up the hay, blow it into a silo and blow "Phosilage" in with it. "Phosilage," which is 75% phosphoric acid, neutralizes the alkalinity, allows the natural acids to do their preservative work.* Moreover, according to Monsanto, its phosphorus content promotes healthy bones in cattle...