Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fanatical hater of flies. Dose Muffin dies chasing one into a buzzsaw. Ready for burial, Dose jumps up, yells for a flyswatter. When it is brought he lies down again, swats the fly in his coffin, makes no further fuss as the dirt is shoveled over...
Harold T. Smith, Jr. -- Miss Dorothy Coffin, Brookline...
Panama Pacific's coffin had three big nails in it: Last June, after Congress withdrew all ocean mail subsidies, empowering the Maritime Commission to make a new deal, Panama Pacific lost its annual $450,000 mail subsidy and got nothing in its place. Beginning nine weeks ago, the Panama Canal changed toll charges in such a way that Panama Pacific's annual expenses would have been increased about $37,000. Third coffin nail was a rusty West Coast labor problem...
...Coffin: freshmen 89%, seniors 96%, faculty 90%, men 89%, women...
...Coffin also made clear that only those with an interest in Christianity could gain any great value from it. "It is the unique prerogative of Christ to open for us the door to eternal life," were his words on the point...