Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed and then the screams of children and women who soon blackened in the heat. A little boy climbed the flag pole, trying...
...have thus been taken care of, taught trades, etc. But the homes are evidently not all they are supposed to be, for recently the head of one institution was arrested because he placed iodine on the tongues of boys using bad language, because he turned a hose on a small riot and because he sewed the shirts of two youthful fighters together "like Siamese twins." The punishment of the youngsters seemed to be well merited, considering what thugs they are-but not in the eyes of the Bolsheviki...
...merely hard usage that deadens rubber billiard cushions, windshield strips, matting, packing, belting, hose, tires. The soft air sucks life just as surely, though more insidiously. At the chemical laboratories of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., a new product has been invented-neozone. Rubber treated with neozone resists the subtle deterioration caused by oxygen in the air, thus retains life longer...
...come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only...
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