Word: draining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garage and an automobile sales agency, first Democrat elected Supervisor of Hyde Park in a generation. The Supervisor-elect won his campaign by distributing 30 boxes of 5? cigars, and by stanchly championing Mrs. Roosevelt who his Republican opponent, Walter Gilbert, had declared was "whistling up a drain pipe" in her efforts to provide self-sustaining industries to take care of Hyde Park's unemployed. The torchlight procession carried a piece of drain pipe labeled...
...Here is Gilbert's drainpipe." The President chose, however, to speak of one of Dutchess County's oldest stone houses built before the days of drain pipes. Said...
With two floors of his Ritz Towers in Manhattan made ready to receive Mr. Hearst this week, some observers suspected that the real reason he was leaving California was that his mansions and estates there were proving too great a drain on his pocketbook...
...magnet was originally a Japanese find, that the little lamp was a Dutch invention, that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME, Sept. 9). With crows of delight the tycoons stopped, played with this gadget...
...courses annually a certain number of courses must be omitted each year. However, were three instructors to rotate within three courses, continuing the annual shift, every course could be given and without fear of stagnation from the platform. The two highly similar surveys being given now are clogging the drain, making classes unwieldy and hampering the activities of the instructors. Any such change would do much to relieve the strain in the English department...