Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fishbowl v. Pickle Jar...
...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
...course. Colgate made some pretence that the Duke's performance was-ah-cultural. But to 1,450 students, faculty members and townspeople who crowded the chapel, no such excuse was necessary. The audience would have rocked the joint, had not the Colgate Maroon warned beforehand that stamping might jar loose the three-and-a-half-ton ceiling of the chapel...
Only the strong may continue to live in freedom and in peace." Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, 73, stepped to the jar. Fragile, twittery Lieut. Colonel (retired) Charles R. Morris, who blindfolded Newton D. Baker for the first draft drawings of World War I, did the same for Mr. Stimson (with a bandage made from the cover of a chair in Independence Hall, sanitized with a sheet of Kleenex). Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced...
...iron permits a stiff rocking motion, which does not jar the leg. Cast and iron are removed after eight weeks. The pins are pulled out painlessly with pliers...