Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edison to a building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every plank and gadget of which had been brought to Dearborn, Mich., from Menlo Park, N. J. Ruminantly chewing tobacco as he inspected, Edison scuffed the dirt floor with his toe. "Why, Henry's even got that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling...
...Damn...
...were then eight 10,000-ton cruisers under construction, and pointed out that as a result of the failure of the Geneva conference a $740,000,000 ship- building program was before Congress. Mr. Wakeman took the blame for Bethlehem's having hired Mr. Shearer, admitted it was a "damn fool decision...
When no further reports came in, flyers said: "Probably some damn fool trying to be spectacular." But oldtime seamen had another theory: now that the sea has taken so many lives in airplanes, perhaps there is a Flying Dutchman of the Air; an outbound plane that mariners will hear and see sometimes, far at sea, on dirty nights for flying...
...make a special brand of soup that retails for $2 a quart, see the 50 women who do what no machines can do (peel onions all day long), see the five soup tasters who together pass on every brew?the word of any one of whom is enough to damn a whole batch to destruction...