Word: gar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gar Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...
Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...trying to avenge his sprint defeats in Big Three Competition in the 100, possibly in the 50, and in the 220. Perryman and Duncan of Yale, Van Oss of Princeton, Williams of Penn, Armstrong of Dartmouth, and Garrett of Army constitute formidable opposition for him in the 50, with Gar- rett the underdog favorite...
...four-day U. S. itinerary of Great Britain's King & Queen next June, went Captain Alan Frederick Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), the King's assistant private secretary. Asked if he were related to Henry George Charles Lascelles, Lord Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), brother-in-law of the King, he answered yes. "How?" ''Quite legitimately...
...English is ut? Th' Sassanachs wha beheaded King Chairlie an' gar th' Bonnie Prince hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...