Word: locked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back a child with bronchial asthma up against a tree and peg a lock of his hair into a hole bored in the tree trunk. Snip the lock from his head. When bark grows over the hair, the asthma will disappear...
...dead of night two robbers broke into Edwardsville State Bank in Wyandotte County, Kans., fell upon the vice president as he entered in the morning, made off with $1,400. While waiting for the time lock to release the vault door, one of the robbers observed: "You know, it's a wonder that Dillinger hasn't visited this joint...
...Treasury would have to pay for large quantities of silver to be buried in its vaults and several hundred million dollars of currency would be paid out to silver producers and speculators. Faced with the combined strength of the silver and inflation blocs. Administration leaders scratched many a greying lock while they wondered how they could muster enough votes to beat this bill, or emasculate...
...that rare season in Cambridge when Sunday afternoons are also pleasant afternoons, it is grievously unseasonable that Weld Boat House should be kept under lock and key. There are many whose only opportunity to seek the upstream zephyrs comes upon the Sabbath. Others who find themselves free to go a'rowing are turned away, and instead of gliding upon the surface of the river, must content themselves with running around it. The Charles, when it might be covered with graceful cedar craft, maintains an austere and puritanical state of isolation...
...came that year when the French Government threatened legal action to force M. Citroën to hand over the social insurance premiums he had collected from his 25,000 employes. Last spring a 10% wage cut brought ugly rioting at the Citroën plant in Paris, a lock-out and in the end a several-weeks' shutdown. A completely redesigned Citroën for 1934 entailed heavy retooling expenses and Jean Frenchman cocked a doubtful eyebrow at the new low-priced models. By last week Andre Citroën was desperate for cash. As the price...