Word: junk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to this situation Cambridge has had an ordinance in effect for a long time, which says that these dealers and all others who handle junk or second-hand goods must register every purchase and sale that they make each day in a book. This book must be open for inspection by the police at any time, and a daily report on its content be submitted to the authorities at sundown...
Dartmouth's '31 has practically the same number (30) of lawyers, teachers, doctors, bankers and insurance agents. Other occupations vary from politicians to ski school proprietors to ladies underwear to junk dealers to yellow fever research to CCC officers to the Yankees (Red Rolfe) to airlines...
...four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands a cut. O'Hara, escaping from the general's junk, arrives in time to cut short these negotiations, but before he can find the money General Yang and his soldiers are on the scene. The elaborate pattern of violence which follows gives the girl a chance to redeem her original betrayal while Yang justifies the picture's title...
Ever since Amoskeag closed down last autumn leading Manchester businessmen have worked hard to get the mills going again, under the same or different management. In the event of a knockdown sale these gentlemen apprehended mighty Amoskeag converted into junk, providing neither jobs for Manchester workers nor business for them. Fortnight ago a citizens' committee headed by Manchester's onetime Mayor Arthur Edmond Moreau decided to buy the plant themselves, sell all or any part to manufacturers who would guarantee...
17th.--Up very betimes, about 8 o'clock, waked by a blasted noise between a band, a drunk and a junk man, nobody after I up being able to tell me what it was. But--did say it be no noise at all, but only a brain disturbance of the Senior Spread affair, and this I can believe, for never in my life have I been to such a sweaty, messy affair, nor had such poor supper, nor heard such good music but with so little space to make merry in. Bless my soul, scarce lives there...