Word: deposited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment years ago to determine the reason why Pullman sleepers ride headfirst. . . . The time came for the porter to make up our berths. Seeing that all of them were made up with the head forward, I determined to be different, rode feetfirst, awoke in the morning with a heavy deposit of cinders from the open window in my eyes, ears, mouth, nose...
Students who use telephones must pay a deposit at the beginning of the year; this prevents loss to the telephone company. The Business Manager of Harvard University says: "We have never been troubled by the telephone company to pay back bills." The New England Telephone and Telegraph company here says: "We consider the 900 student phones in Harvard pretty good credit...
Author Faulkner likes Joycean agglutinations. Example from Pylon: " 'Deposit five cents for three minutes please,' the bland machine-voice chanted. The metal stalk sweatclutched, the guttapercha bloom cupping his breathing back at him, he listened, fumbled, counting as the discreet click and cling died into wirehum...
...Panamas and Consols are the only Government bonds with the so-called circulation privilege. When a bank wants to issue its own notes, it must deposit in Washington approximately an equal amount on those bonds and no others.* Thus by calling the Panamas and Consols the Government will eliminate National Bank notes from circulation-something contemplated by the founders of the Federal Reserve...
...young child wearing a necklace of bone beads. From the necklace depended a small plaque apparently carved from a mammoth tusk and bearing the image of three entwined snakes. Nearby were bone weapons and 20 bone images of women, perhaps goddesses. Archeologists outside Russia doubted the antiquity of the deposit, principally because even the crudest bone weapons had not come to light before the late Paleolithic period...