Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another type of cleaning device opens the closed bolls and passes all fibres to a drum with spindles which will pick up only fibres, no trash. The fluff is then pneumatically bagged or loaded, ready to be ginned (have the seeds re-moved...
...fight.' I do not believe this is a Christian doctrine. If Christ said: "Peace on earth and good will towards men," then surely He would not advocate such clamor and strife as war. He would fight for the right, but if war is right, if killing the pick of our men is right, certainly Christ would not have said: "Peace on earth...
...this one scans the London Times and invariably finds, at the proper season, that a great many Scotsmen want to rent their grouse moors. Rental for a whole season may run up to £5,000 ($24,300) or more; but thrifty hunters know that they can often pick up a fair moor for a week or two at relatively trifling cost. Having rented a moor, one must then bring or buy much hunting gear, and, in any case, should wear the hunting costume of the moment. This ensemble, which varies slightly each season, is often topped off with...
...consumption were "less . . . than any of our previous models." Top speed was 65 m.p.h. Getaway and pick-up surpassed many another type of machine. Works. Detroit wiseacres said that production on the new model would be kept down, at first, to around 300 per day. The Ford statement, however, said that all Ford plants were retooled, indicating a readiness to stride out rapidly towards the old Ford supremacy in mass production if the new models -and "moderate" prices-are well received...
Twelve women were entered. Some whistled, some yodeled, some called "John!" It was planned to hold a series of eliminations, pick a state champion. Interest in the contests has surpassed that in recent hog-calling tournaments. Rules announced: Call must be penetrating to reach husbands far on the prairie; must be of a kind to start husbands home, not in the opposite direction; contestants are restricted to calling their own husbands...