Word: sawdusted
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...fattening cattle with expensive corn can be greatly improved. One development in feeding is the use of synthetic urea to nourish the bacteria in the rumen (part of a steer's stomach) so that a steer can be readied for market on cotton burrs, corncobs and even sawdust in its food...
...hero of this story is a sliver off the old Chip. The rest of the characters are sawdust. But there is every sign that James Hilton, an author who rarely takes any wooden nickels, will do just as well with this book as with its seven sentimental, bestselling predecessors. Hilton's Random Harvest, The Story of Dr. Wassell, So Well Remembered have sold more than a million copies each, and Lost Horizon and Good-Bye, Mr. Chips have each sold more than 3,000,000. Time and Time Again is already on its way into several hundred thousand American...
...league strides, then floated his 210 Ibs. upward with unbelievable buoyancy. But each time the bar quivered, then fell. On his third and last try, Davis sailed over. The bar quivered, stayed put. For an instant he sprawled in the pit, then bounded back to his feet and flung sawdust for joy. The crowd pressed in while the bar height was rechecked. It was actually 6 ft. 11 ⅝ if in., but, because the A.A.U. does not reckon with eighths of inches, the new mark was set down at 6 ft. ½ in. Next goal for Davis, a onetime polio...
...sunlit spring, Italy does indeed wear a sheen it did not have under the plumed bumblings of the Savoys or the sawdust imperialism of Mussolini...
...Earth" was jammed with enough clowns, animals and death-defying aerialists to bewilder the most attentive youngster in the audience. And, as always, the whole show sparkled with a brand-new spring outfit of costumes, scenery and floats. The man who dresses the circus anew each year, "from the sawdust up" (moss-green this year), is a mild-mannered, round-faced designer named Miles White...