Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half dozen lunch rooms were hotbeds of rubbish. Total damage was estimated at $20,000,000. " Strangely enough, no one was killed; only a few suffered serious injuries. But 3,000 people were thrown out of work in a city of 150,000 population where wages had already been cut to the danger point (see p. 35). Fall River started building itself up again: There was prospect of more work. The whistles of 29 locomotives were screaming one afternoon last week. Their cords had been caught in the fallen timbers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s roundhouse...
...road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention is at hand the leaders of the party will recognize the widespread popularity and genuine qualities of leadership of William Hale Thompson...
...evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please pardon four dots. Tact compels me. You may cut it to three, but no less...
...operator of the newly opened Tokyo subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (ciga-rets: Chesterfield, Fatima, Piedmont; smoking tobacco: Velvet, Granger Rough Cut; chewing tobacco: Star, Horse Shoe) ?$18,743,395. Previous year...