Word: litters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model form of exemption. ... Its general effect is to allow a tradesman to announce his business-once, on each front of his premises toward a road and to display advertisements ... on a single space on the building of not more than 24 sq. ft. "On the question of litter, there is no doubt that the habits of the public have greatly improved, but they are a long way from perfection. ... On the London General omnibuses I have observed that only five percent of the passengers make use of the receptacles provided for used tickets. . . . What we must do is raise...
Most of last week, Industrial Recovery Administration Administrator General Hugh Samuel Johnso, U. S. A. retired, was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts in a little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
...recovered completely and three weeks later became the mother of a one-dog litter...
...years my business was raising and selling pure-bred Duroc Jersey hogs. I raised hogs that had so much sex appeal I sold 'em as high as $500 apiece. . . . It's not the young sow with her sex appeal that produces a litter of ten or twelve pigs. It's the old sow that's lost her sex appeal and is reckless. . . . When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they...
...manager of the French Line, was severely wounded when his host's shotgun went off accidentally. Carried from the field through swamps and thickets on a litter of branches and gunnysacks, he was taken to a Savannah hospital where it was found that the charge had blown away part of a rib and collarbone, lodged 100 pellets in a lung. He was expected to recover...