Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in Paris Paul Roger of the Pathe group was planning the synchronization of Valentino's Blood and Sand, as a test for making dead stars talk, with a Valentino mimic capable of gauging and timing the dialog accurately...
...Their economic program is being carried out with an idealism and sacrifice of which the American people have no true concept. There are 156,000,000 people in Russia and to ignore their desires, wants and governmental stability is to act the foolish ostrich with its head in the sand...
...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
Rabbits are found in great numbers along highways, chiefly at night. Some game commissioners think they come out of the chilly woods to lie in the warm roadside sand. Others have suggested that they find food thrown out by motorists. Best explanation may be that they, like many other animals, are attracted by the lights of passing cars. The glare blinds them. They either race in front of the automobile or squat down in the highway. Although New York's wild rabbit death rate is as high as New Jersey's, New York plans this year to stock only with...
...fixed his name in western minds. About a year ago he arrived in Okla homa City, said he would "come back." He proceeded to sell stock in Julian Oil & Royalty Co., started three wells in Oklahoma City Field. Two came in as gushers, the third is near pay-sand. He drives a shiny motor, has a high-speed private airplane. His apartment is modestly furnished, his offices are filled with overstuffed mahogany furniture and a corps of stenographers. Who his asso ciates are is not known. He smiles and says they are his stockholders. Sometimes he appears in Tulsa...