Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill! How's things? Saving this place? Yeah, I don't eat much at noon. Look out--sorry...Well, why the hell don't you look where you're going? Oh...Jees, look at my sleeve. Chocolate milk all over it. Sure, I do. The litle shrimp sits in front of me in French. I'll joggle his chair, absentminded, tomorrow. Yeh, we got an exam. You can drive a guy nuts that way. You can drive a guy--sure, it does. Just scrape...
...Venereal Diseases (1920-22). While thus employed he composed Love Triumphant, and other poems. Seven years ago he married, and two years ago, at 43, begot his only son and heir, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes-a lusty infant said to prefer a dash of sugar in his milk...
...Hoover was tempted to tell his favorite story, about a cow in China during the Boxer Rebellion. This cow belonged to the Hoovers and they cherished her because good rich milk WAS rare then and there. Some predatory Germans took the cow. Forth-went the Hoovers leading their cow's small calf through narrow streets, punching and-prodding it into a grief-stricken moo-oo-ooing. Mother cow, hidden behind walls, heard the call of her young and mooed back maternally. Out rushed the Germans?and took away the calf...
...officer in charge detailed the case to Special Officer Robert Dwyer of the Milk Street Station, who now has the custody of the gymnasium building blue-prints, which he is examining for finger-prints. Officer Dwyer traced the blue prints from the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Abbott, and Bullfinch to a Wellesley contractor who was making estimates for the water-proofing of the proposed building. The contractor admitted losing the plans, which he believed to have mislaid on the train, as they had been rolled up on the seat beside him during the trip. A warrant has been sworn...
Fruits, vegetables. Trading in futures (raw silk, rubber, cocoa, not yet harvested) permits the producer and buyer to protect himself against unforeseen crop disasters. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers this hedging-by-speculation privilege in butter and eggs only. Last week its members considered new commodity admissions-other milk products, vegetables, fruits, canned foods. Cheesemakers, potato and apple growers, canners would, they argued, enjoy the financial protection against plant and animal scourges. Chicago commodity brokers would, obviously, enjoy increased commissions...