Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from their appointed bongfest. Last week, at the Society's 302nd annual shindig, the "Bore War" did what fire and plague could not. This time the members did their Stedman Caters and Oxford Singles with hand bells in the upstairs room of a blacked-out London pub. Reason: open-air change-ringing might drown out air-raid sirens...
...Brighton, Pa., Health Officer Fred Myers, called by neighbors to investigate a house in which gas lights had shone night and day for two weeks, found a dead man sitting in a chair, an open book beside him. Said the man's widow: "I thought there was something wrong. He wouldn't talk...
...coal problem, the Army's answer is the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. (But Administrator Paul Raver boasted last week at the White House that demand for Bonneville power is currently twice its output.) Instead of coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open hearth furnaces for steel), West Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific...
...companies began replacing old ice wagons with enameled delivery trucks, streamlined and enclosed. Instead of open collar and rubber backsheet, icemen began to wear natty uniforms and bow ties; to use instead of ice tongs drip-proof canvas carriers; to wipe up water when they accidentally spilled it on the floor, to shun the honest word "icebox" and call it "ice refrigerator...
...Open house for all men who are interested in coming out for the CRIMSON will be held again this evening in the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street at 8 o'clock...