Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was while she was in the Coop waiting in line to join, and the interviewer thought she looked like a Freshman...
...take a good look around before rushing into any extra-curricular activity. May join the Student Union later on, if he likes the platform, and will probably take up swimming in the winter. Other than that the first thing he's going to do is join the Coop; they don't have any in Oklahoma...
Many secondhand books can be picked up in the Square from the second hand book sellers. Other volumes have to be bought new at the Coop. If you have a good encyclopedia in your room at home, it would be well worth while to bring that along for reference...
...dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower. After 20 min. the twister was lifted back into its mother...
Having decided to form a coop, a group of people charter an association, buy at least one share of stock each to provide capital. Membership is open to all. Each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares owned, and he may not vote by proxy. Return on his stock, which usually costs from $5 to $25 per share, is limited usually to 5% or 6%. The store sells at prevailing prices, strictly for cash. A record of each member's purchases is kept, sometimes in a little book like a bankbook carried by the member...