Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peru) and the father of a young son named Jonathan, Leonard is the owner of a growing stack of trophies. His prize, a packet of lead-wrapped fragments of fused soil from the crater of the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico, reposes in a Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing remnants of his bonds fly out of the box like a swarm of moths...
Pools of Flame. Eastern's DC-4 had gone down in a woodland between the village of Port Deposit on the Susquehanna River and Perryville on the Pennsylvania Railroad; within a few minutes, automobiles from nearby towns and farms were headed for the spot. Fire equipment and naval enlisted men from nearby Bainbridge Naval Training Station soon joined them...
...urged test-weary students to deposit their old volumes in dining hall receptacles for use in PBH's 25-cent-a-term loan service...
Undergraduates may draw books from PBH shelves, Pugliese stated, by paying a 25 cent fee for one term, and a "two-bit deposit...
...water supply is nothing but chlorinated (unfiltered) water from Lake Michigan, which is also used for sewage disposal. The city law requiring pasteurization of ice cream and frozen desserts, the investigators found, is laxly enforced. Private scavengers still collect about one-third of the city's refuse and deposit it in four fly-ridden, ratinfested, unregulated dumps...