Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the Germanic Museum is easy to wind. It only takes me about five minutes and I can turn the crank with one hand. The clock in Memorial Hall makes me use both hands and feet as hard...
Haled to court, Mr. Johnson said: "In trying to keep him from hitting me with a crank handle, my hand accidentally came into contact with the lower part...
Just because some crank throws away "70 agate lines valued at about $1.20 each" for a few days, is no reason why you should print stuff that only an eccentric could have written and that is nearer blasphemy than "advertising for the Catholic Church...
...labor is in vain. Nobody was ever crazy enough to shoot at a Vice President. If you will go, away and find somebody to shoot, at me, I'll go down in history as being the first Vice President who ever attracted enough attention to have even a, crank shoot...
There is nothing complacent about Walter P. Chrysler, super-mechanic. Fame and a fabulous salary were his when he boomed the Buick. He straightway proceeded to crank up Willys-Overland. Then he steered Maxwell and Chalmers around a parlous financial corner. Next he put his name on 32,000 little winged bullets-Chrysler Sixes-and sent them flying through the land...