Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif., newshawks discovered Negro Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler, "scientific sewer cleaner and turtle trainer." Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler's trained turtles will go through anything in order to reach a pinch of powdered flies. He hitches them to a small metal plow, sends them through clogged drains...
...Since no official was familiar with the finer points of the hangman's technique, Phil Hanna was called to do the job for nothing. Some 50 years ago Hanna was shocked by the spectacle of a bungled hanging. Thereupon he took up hanging as a hobby, experimented with plow lines and straw dummies. When he perfected a foolproof method, he volunteered his services to any State that needed...
Radium E is the seventh and last stage of radium disintegration before it turns into polonium. Its atomic weight is 210. Atomic weight of bismuth is 209. Dr. John Jacob Livingood figured that if he hurled billions of particles of atomic weight i at bismuth, some of them might plow into the nucleus and stick, turning the bismuth into Radium E. Actually, the best particles for his purpose were deuterons whose atomic weight is 2. When the deuterons got close to the bismuth nucleus, they broke into protons and neutrons. The protons recoiled. But the neutrons, of atomic weight...
...Year's midnight calls on Lossiemouth neighbors, while his father, snowy-haired Lord President of the Council James Ramsay MacDonald, diplomatically stayed at home visiting with Daughter Sheila. Not present was Daughter Ishbel who did such a rushing business during the weekend at her 300-year-old Plow Inn in High Wycombe (TIME. Dec. 2) that she was obliged to don an apron, help wait on such distinguished guests as the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham...
...most picturesque writing in current U. S. letters. Opposed to them is a younger set of mountain folk who possess much more enthusiasm, much more humor, much less book-learning. One member of this second group is Jesse Stuart, 28-year-old author of Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, a volume of 703 colloquial sonnets characterizing the poet's neighbors, sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight ago from the death cell in Pineville, Ky. jail where he had been held on a charge of criminal syndicalism. A third is Ed Bell...