Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled them all up. For ten days he repeated the process, using larger beads each time, until finally Mrs. Gregory could gulp down a bead the size of a hickory nut...
Steve Madey and Andy Rosenberger in the pole vault will be up against Yale's Ted Lussen, a tough nut to crack in any man's track meet...
...Newport Y.M.C.A. quintet proved to be a tougher nut to crack than it looked, and Coach Johnny Wood's charges went down to a 47 to 33 defeat before the long-range sniping of the visitors...
Hellzapoppin. Like life in a nut house at the height of a bombardment (TIME...
...biggest producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...