Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workmen was a Russian called Peter with a temper like gunpowder, who did five men's work in a day and drank at night with the capacity of a suction pump. Was there a great spar to be lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move...
...official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ for 30 years, he used to supply the music-making wind every morning. "That was some job!" he asserted. "The old bellows leaked about as fast as I could pump. Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower...
Bring in water from pump in yard--Bring in water from cistern...
...pump every time you go for water in the yard.--Trim all the lamps...
Columbia's James Waterhouse Angell, economist son of Yale's President James Rowland Angell: "The rising public debt and governmental inflation, which the process of pump-priming almost inevitably carries with it, are precisely the factors best calculated to destroy private confidence and to discourage private business recovery...