Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignity of the Indoor Athletic Building suffered a severe shock recently when a large laundry truck parked outside the building. On its side was painted a large safety pin and beneath it, the motto "We like to wash them. You don't." The truck was a messenger of the Dydee Laundry...
...office on her adjustable exercise machine (see cut}. It is adjustable so that Mrs. Garner can also get a work-out sitting down, or lying on her back. "I am handicapped," explained she, "because I can't take off my dress in my office. I just pin up my skirt and shut the door...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are no bigger than a pin-head or at most a golf ball. Their great light energy is generated by the terrific speeds at which they hit the earth's atmosphere...
...proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that goes into engraving the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin...
Some bowling enthusiasts are known to have nightmares wherein they roll small balls which can knock down only one pin at a time, and no sooner are successive single pins knocked down than they bounce up again. Somewhat similar nightmares are said to be troubling Japanese generals, who bowl over Chinese towns one by one, only to have the Chinese seep in behind their advance and set them up again. Last week Japanese announced they had captured coastal Haichow (pronounced Hi, Joe) and Lungkow (Loong-Go), last Chinese-held ports north of Shanghai, and two inland Shantung towns...