Word: forks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know, Mr. President, that there are some members of your Cabinet who do not frankly cooperate with you. I am one of them," said the blunt Indian-blooded General. Fork poised in the air, Cárdenas replied: "I appreciate your frankness, General Cedillo, and in spite of our differences, I continue to count on your help...
Apparently overlooked by happy Miss Juno was a side of Harlan revealed last week in a complaint filed by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers against Clover Fork Coal Co. in Kitts...
...Strip-tease!" exploded Clover Fork's Secretary-Treasurer A. F. Whitfield. "We deny that. The company has been observing the Wagner Labor Relations Act to the letter...
...earthquake waves is also important, however, and pendulum clocks of high accuracy are likely to be thrown out of kilter by strong temblors originating nearby. Dr. Benioff has now devised what he calls an "earthquake resistant time- piece"- a clock driven by a 1,000-cycle tuning fork, which is in turn driven by a fourstage amplifier. This apparatus is accurate to one-tenth of a second per day and Dr. Benioff was sure last week that it would not be put out of whack by a quake unless the walls of the observatory themselves tumbled...
...highway from where the glacier's runoff water joins the Delta. "The roadhouse shook perceptibly and we could hear the distant moaning glacier . . . for all the world like a gigantic dredge." Nearer to, the groaning, booming and thundering was even more awesome. "The glacier is bifurcated. One fork is moving into the other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could walk to the face of the glacier. Now so much water is flowing we could not walk along the front." Fear that...