Word: forks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped out tentative feelers of yellow water. Like a wandering serpent, one mile-wide flood flailed ponderously across Honan Province. Where the old and new beds of the Hwang Ho fork, roily water slupped around the cities of Chengchow, Lanfeng and Kaifeng, drowning 1,000 working peasants at one gulp near the latter...
...boom of the bass-viol to the peep of the piccolo, as if they were all nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind, and knowing that in the field of optics the most evanescent tints can be reduced to the familiar primary...
...tools the Secretary of Agriculture was given his pick of Cotton Options, Domestic Allotment. Land Leasing. On him was conferred the awful power to tax. He was given permission to set aside anti-trust laws. He was given absolute control over the distribution of food from field to fork...
...American people will soon be at the fork of three roads. The first is the highway of co-operation among nations. . . . The second road is to rely upon our high degree of national self-containment . . . and thus to secure a larger measure of economic isolation. . . . The third road is that we inflate our currency, abandon the gold standard and attempt to enter a world economic war, with the certainty that it leads to complete destruction. . . . Unless the world takes heed it will find it has lost its standards of living and culture, not for a few years of depression...
...Paul, surgeons took an 8½-in. table fork from the stomach of Margaret Santell, 19. In Los Angeles, doctors fed cotton & spinach to Raymond Wilkinson, 5, to pad a small open pocket knife working slowly down through his intestinal tract...