Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accusations of his neighbors at small Beulah, Mich. Those neighbors never did approve the resort for unmarried mothers and baby bastards which this retired Congregational clergyman operated at Beulah. They suspected that Brooks let poor babies die or even had them killed, that he buried them in the dune sand among the second growth birches of his 80-acre place where brambles and goat tracks quickly erased all trace of the graves...
...make sure that Brooks's activities did not exceed U. S. folk custom and include murder, the inquisitor last week ordered men with mattocks, picks and shovels to hack into the frozen sand among the Brooks's birches. Soon the chilled diggers pried out two infants wrapped in old newspapers. One of the infants seemed to have had a fractured skull...
Health Insurance. Because the medical profession has kicked up such sand, President Roosevelt sidestepped the question of health insurance. As a sop he proposed to distribute to the States the following sums for the following purposes...
...dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
...weather was now so cold that the fishermen refused to work at any price, sat sucking their pipes by a fire. When Andrews and Clark shoveled out sand, the holes filled up with water. With knives they groped blindly in the puddles, taking out segments of backbone one at a time. Finally the fishermen took pity, pitched in, and within a week the bones were rescued and stacked up. But on checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that...