Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lifting one foot slowly above the other, lungs suffocating, nothing but the marble precipice below and the sky-light above. Past niches cut in the smooth marble as if for statues. No statues there! They were carved by explorers who had died in the Child Memorial climb, cremated themselves, and placed their ashes here, to be blown to the four winds of heaven. In some cases a few ashes still remained...
...dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy who rose in Parliament to interpolate the Government upon its intentions...
When the Pathe laboratories have finished developing the films they will send them to Harvard. There scientists will cut, edit, arrange, write captions, prepare two feature movies-one technical, for universities; the other elementary, for school courses in social geography. The films will be released to universities, schools, museums, not to theatres. The monkeys at Havana will remain in their accustomed seclusion, available for scientific study, but secure from tourists and the merely curious...
Persuaded by his skilled publicity, Sadie Holland went to Dr. Schireson for removal of her shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added...
Except for 1923, when eight billion square yards of cotton products were manufactured in the U. S. (two billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag...