Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heating Appliances. Copper wire carries electric energy with very little wastage. A wire made of chromium-nickel or similar alloys, on the other hand, resists the passage of electricity and gets hot. Upon this fact were created the many heating devices displayed at the show: Flat Irons Hot Pads Manglers Toasters Grills Percolators Stoves Waffle Iron- Heaters Curling Irons Radiators Sterilizers and a new device for pressing trousers...
...this ten-car circus load its tents, stakes, poles and other paraphernalia loosely in baggage cars, when, if he has ever seen a circus in action, he would know that such material is loaded on wagons, which are run on flat cars. . . . According to Tully the wagons were transported empty, and the canvas and other paraphernalia loaded into baggage cars just to give the roughnecks something...
...Such persons as had not seen the President since he left for South Dakota, were struck by something which had been imperceptible to eyes that have been seeing the President right along. The President is thinner. His new gray suit buttons neat and flat in front where his old blue suits used to bulge slightly...
There, as in Japan, wharves, jetties, ships, buildings were hurled landwards or smacked flat by mighty impact. Later the shattered remnants were sucked into the sea by the retreating water...
...Leiperville, Pa. Mr. Godfrey disposed of Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn. He had been knocked flat in the third for the count of nine; was tired, bloody, outclassed...