Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" went away to Buchtel College (now the University of Akron) and to the University of Cincinnati...
...close an interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...
...confused with Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, great grain, lumber and iron ore terminal, on Lake Superior, for Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways...
...screens for the Business School; 12,000 napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right and be right...
...scrawl explained that the small man was, in consideration of $100 paid, entitled to sell "hot dogs" and soft drinks at a stand in that square during the trial. The policeman explained for an hour. The small man trundled his lumber away...