Word: licked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held Feb. 21st; but I must confess I do think the poster which doth announce the affair be in poor taste. This I did tell some ones but all they did say was: "We don't expect you to bring your Grandmother!" Alas, I back to the Tower to lick my wounds...
...This famed tree pest was accidentally introduced into the U. S. by James Lick, founder of the Lick observatory. Astronomer Lick had imported some fruit trees from China. The scale arrived with them, spread to become a great fruit tree menace. †Owned by Pacific Machinery Co., which is 5O%, owned by Food Machinery...
Trained scientists, too, have been carefully observing the Nova's fluctuations. In July, Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper, Lecturer in Astronomy, observed at Lick Observatory, California, that the Nova appeared to be taking the form of a double star. The gases around the nucleus take an eliptical form which we see from the side as a straight line, or nearly so. As nebulous matter appears thicker at the ends, these points appear brighter. The nebulous cloud is so bright as to dominate all light from the nucleus itself...
...Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn't make them understand what I was after, but they treated me all right. I didn't have to do a lick of work [Accepting a cigaret] I must have even backslid a little. . . . I'm so happy about going home that I feel like a coon in a watermelon patch...
...gold piece," the burly Texan added. "I don't know what is ahead either but I know what is behind us. I know there's plenty of meat in the smokehouse and flour in the barrel and, whatever it is, we'll lick it somehow...