Word: husked
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...great issue under Roosevelt I, Senator Borah was in the thick of the fight. Since then political ideology has moved on into fresher fields, more social than economic, with the result that the Idahoan of 1906 is left battling a foe which to 1936 liberals is but hollow husk...
...still has hopes that she may prove to be an actress, she is still hampered by the same old stereotyped parts in implausible plots. At any event, she is not just a simple German girl, she is a woman with considerable charm and magnificent stage presence. Under the husk of an artificial and assumed manner she may some day reveal something more than a pleasant pucker of the lips, a husky feminine bass voice, a pair of legs, and an engaging way of drawling "off-ten", "yesss...
...really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building has its own, separate foundations, is further insulated from the outer husk by 6 in. of dead air. Thermostat control and automatic air conditioners maintain the ten rooms of the icebox at any desired temperature and humidity. Year-round humidity will be kept at between 35% and 45%. Temperature will not vary more than one-tenth of one degree from...
...Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended work Olson's pile of 25.27 bushels was about two pecks better than what Holmes had husked. Wild Clyde Tague of Guthrie County, Iowa, came in third...
Academic thoughts and fancies should, and probably will, fade as quickly as the iris and narcissus so carefully planted in one's rooms only to bloom for the janitor's delectation during Christmas vacation. But strange to say, the world will be no husk, no empty shell. There will be left, among other things...