Word: pop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a truant moppet is haled into court for failing to go to school. Last week the town of Woburn, Mass. (pop. 20,000) was haled into court for failing to provide for schooling its moppets...
Eighteen months ago Melvin G. Attig, 26, a high-school teacher in Aurora, Ill. ignored the advice of his principal and friend, took a job as high-school principal in nearby Oswego, Ill. (pop. 1,200). He knew that it was no sinecure, for many Oswegans were angry over removal of his predecessor, but he did not know it was a killing...
...buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...
...Allegan, Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Van Buren (pop...
According to all reports Hutter is almost as fast as over in the sprints. He will be seconded by backstroker Graham "Pop" Cummin '38, who was timed for the 100-yard seconds worse than his best. George Scott '34, who astounded the fans last year when he swam a 24-second 50, a better time than he had over turned in while in college, will negotiate the 50 and swim in the relay for the grads...