Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to repair a break in the pipe line when runs from the Charles River to the Eliot House condenser, city workers yesterday afternoon dug a ten foot hole in front of Winthrop House, and employed a gasoline pump to draw off the escaping flood...
...thermometer touched some new lows yesterday morning the Yard observer reported one of the first signs of an early and cold winter. The tap has been removed from the pump outside Hollis Hall, and presumably, the water has been turned...
...farm in Indiany. The old purplish-brown apple butter used to come thru them hole in the paddle like somethin it aint so pleasant to think about, but just the same that ain a bad idea of yours. If they has organizashuns for folks that used to pump pipe organs, why not ? But don't you think then orter be a requirement that you had to turn the peeler the night before for the wimmen folks who cored and sliced them apple? Those slicers, by the way, might be permitted to join the auxiliary...
Exact boundary of Boise is the centre of Reserve Street. From engines and a pump wagon, parked on the city's side of the street, the firemen called out advice to scores of non-professional fire fighters who were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help...
...much as the V. F. W. wants peace, its chief reason for existence, like that of all veteran organizations, is to pump cash from the U. S. Treasury. A politically efficient organization with some 300,000 members, it teamed with the bigger Legion (membership: 1,000,000) to get the Bonus passed. And no one who knows the history of the Grand Army of the Republic, encamped last week in Madison, Wis. with only 200 oldsters to answer the roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign...