Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half a century since a newspaper could be called, with any degree of accuracy, a "rag." The newspaper files of any large library prove this. Editions aged anywhere from 5 to 50 years are yellowed, brittle, flimsy to the touch. They are printed on wood-pulp paper which ages swiftly. But where editions containing accounts of the Battle of the Marne have already become illegible, editions narrating the Battle of Gettysburg, though handled far longer, remain strong and unfaded. They are on paper made from rags...
...passing women. Their little brothers were often born just the other side of thin partitions between bedrooms and perhaps only a night or so after they had seen a sow have a litter. Tom remembers how the men of his village shot a horse thief into a pulp. They both remember their "ole swimmin' holes" and the dirty tricks played there...
...Young Rowntree refrains from smashing Mr. Lockhart's face, stalks out of the room. But Lockhart forms the Consolidated (eleven big companies), gets himself elected president, starts a series of dastardy plots to "crush that young damn fool." ("Then, by God, I'll crush him to a pulp!" And Lockhart doubled his knuckled fists into two tight palsied knots.) But Rowntree is never crushed. At two o'clock one morning, pacing his father's library, he clutches at a musty volume. Out drops the secret letter which his father wrote...
...home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel
...fine if New England could have a dinner with its collars, and, neckties, off..?" *The textile groups with boots and shoes constitute 31% of New England industry. The balance is spread over 200 classifications, all highly localized. Thus Maine and Massachusetts make 75% of New England paper and wood pulp. Rhode Island and Massachusetts make 99% of the jewelry...