Word: ladens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prison and five jails have lodged "Uncle" Remus since his 1924 conviction on bootlegging charges. From headquarters at Death Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...
...mild picture indeed, for a layer of Ontario suggests a stationary lake. These were 7,500 square miles of rushing, swirling, mud-laden watery avalanche in which Death lurked for hundreds. At the end of the first week the fatalities were put at 200 and increased steadily. About 100,000 valley-dwellers were made homeless, from Cairo to the flat Gulf delta, on both banks...
Another type of vacuum carpet cleaner moves across the floor, and sucks air laden with dirt from the carpet. This type does not beat the carpet. The Eureka is an excellent vacuum cleaner 01 this type...
...their points. One may find honest criticism, uninfluenced by anything except genuine value in several magazines and a few newspapers. Certain of them, in fact, make a specialty of unfavorable reviews. On the other hand there are magazines, and it must be said that the Bookman with its columns laden with publishers' advertisements is one of them, who are guided chiefly by a sense of respect for what has received the seal of popular approval. That the Bookman manages to guage the merit of this approval before it joins in the chorus of praise is to the credit...
...theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc discs together, with moist cloths between and a wire connecting top and bottom discs-the first battery. Napoleon called him to Paris, sent him home laden with honors...