Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bergen practiced bringing voices up from his stomach without seeming to move his lips. His success is demonstrated in dummy Charlie McCarthy who crows, firsts, chuckles, sneers and whines over an NBC network every Sunday. He gets 100 letters a week. Never was a four-foot piece of Michigan pine more popular...
Last week Southern Railway Co.'s twelve directors convened in Manhattan's 60 Wall Tower for their monthly meeting and annual election of officers. Scholarly President Fairfax Harrison walked in and sat down in the slot of a huge old semicircular, yellow pine dispatcher's table. The minutes read. Mr. Harrison rose and, instead of passing the chair to someone else while his name was put in nomination (as he had done for a quarter of a century), he quietly announced to the board that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined...
...Once upon a time life with the vitamins was simple. One drank pine needle tea (or vitamin C extract) to cure his scurvy. Now the average vitamin student is afflicted with as many alphabetical vitamins as Job was with boils...
...lapse of too much reading time between the whop, crash, and smash. Now (ahem) if you had written it thus: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...