Word: loft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...licorice which almost no one eats after the age of 12. Remote from the bar ballyhoo are the makers of candy in bulk and in boxes: Chicago's Bunte Bros., E. J. Brach; New York's Henry Heide; Boston's Schrafft and New York's Loft (both also restaurateurs; ; Cambridge's New England Confectionery: Atlanta's Nunnally; Philadelphia's Stephen F. Whitman. Brandle & Smith; St. Louis' National Candy; Pittsburgh's Hardie Bros.; Milwaukee's Robert A. Johnston, Ziegler; Chattanooga's Brock Candy. Depression has hit the candy industry...
...snob. Acknowledging the award, Mr. Rogers said: "I want to say first of all a few words to my mother in Walla Walla. I got fouled in the second round and he refuses to give me a return bout." Another touch of humor which the reunioning classes have loft for reminiscence next year was Joseph Seabury's comment the other night to 1904 that he had been reading the report of his class and he found out that most of his classmates had written voluminously concerning their "life and litters...
...mountainside. Splash! A small piece fell in the water, sent a six-ft. wall of water up the fjord, inundated the power station and plunged the villages into darkness again. The villagers rushed out of their houses toward the slopes. Splash! A bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving a loft. wall of water after the first. It picked up the fishing boats, smashed them against the shore. SPLASH! The rest of the crag fell and a mighty 20-ft. wall of water, white-crested in the dark, roared terribly up the canyon. It picked up whole houses, roared over...
Four people, caught in the loft of a barn by a rising flood, while away what may be their last night of life by telling their true stories...
Herreshoff workers had been waiting for weeks. On its own initiative the company had laid down the new boat's lines in the mold loft, ordered lumber and lead. On the syndicate's say-so the first frames for the hull were bent last week...