Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also had to be fed. . . . There was one other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else...
...meanest job on the farm, so I thought, was picking up potatoes, but I liked to husk corn. There were many other jobs supposed to be a boy's size, such as going after the cows up in the pasture, washing the buggy ( this was before the day of the automobile), sticking pumpkin seeds, pulling weeds in the garden...
...that I despised; it seemed as if her cream never would turn into butter, and it also seemed as if it was always time to churn when the weather was just right for fishing or sliding down hill. Churning was an all-the-year-round job...
...selected Joe Morrill to guard the cage for the start of tonight's game over his closest competitor for the position, Westy Adams. The competition for the regular position is still keen, however, and it is by no means certain that Morrill will continue to hold down the starting job in every game this season...
...Political Bureau of the Communist Party: the dictature over which Joseph Stalin now presides, ruling all Russia. Last week M. Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage and odd job propaganda. Citizens of Leningrad, once M. Zinoviev's political bailiwick, signalized his utter downfall by changing the name of Zinoviev University to the University of Leningrad...