Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Special Bulletin (May 26): A new crisis developed late this afternoon in connection with the pump diggings, when a multi-ton truck came blundering along the road and caused the entire excavation to cave...
Many have probably already been disillusioned by learning that the drilling was to fertilize the ground, and that the big hole is to accommodate a tank in connection with the pump which is going to replace the old one, blown up in 1901 and last seen hurtling through the air in the general direction of Kansas City...
Although the land has been searched as far west as Poughkeepsie, the old pump has not been located. They are therefore training a new pump to look 300 years...
...Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...
However, the source of water for the new pump will not be a well as formerly, but a Cambridge water main, and the old tin drinking cup will be replaced by a modern "bubbler", controlled by the pump handle...