Word: dweller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autopsy surgeons can spot a lifelong city-dweller by the accumulation of soot in his lungs. Effect of this on health remains unknown, but there is no doubt that coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three...
Terrified by the appearance of what she thought was a buzzard at her window, an apartment dweller in Manhattan's West 58th Street one morning last week called police...
...city dweller, an agricultural implement may be a hoe or a pitchfork. But the implement industry thinks of itself in terms of reapers, harvesters, threshers, trucks and tractors-particularly tractors. Its business is essentially the mechanization of the farm, the replacement of four-legged power by power obtained from oil and gasoline engines. Its goal is the technological obsolescence of the horse...
...Last year his first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...
...arranges a rendezvous with the kidnappers but they are frightened off by the appearance of some casual motorcyclists. Miss Fane appeals for help by press and radio, even talks through amplifiers while flying over the length & breadth of California. Her words are heard by a hearty, featherbrained shack-dweller (Alice Brady) who grows suspicious of some mean-looking people who have moved in nearby with a baby. She sells them milk, gabbles at them. They are on the verge of killing the baby when the shack woman snatches it away, eludes their shots, escapes in a battered auto mobile...