Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchants' Association told the press. The press told the story. Last week the Merchants' Association received a letter from one Frederick Paul, farmer, of Stemmers, Md. Wrote he: "We saw a piece in the Baltimore News saying the Turkish Government is asking your association to help them get rid of wild hogs infesting the country. So my father and I have proposed to undertake such a task. Get in touch with us. . . . P.S. We are individual, just father and son. We also will clean up the hogs in six weeks. My father is social, but when wild hogs...
...Odingsell River, Ga., a wild duck plunged his head into the mud, had his bill caught by an oyster which held him fast. Hunters approached, saw the hapless duck, shot and bagged him, with the oyster still clamped upon his bill...
...with her master in an airplane to make her 20th parachute jump. At a height of 1,500 feet she was dropped over the side, swaddled in paraphernalia. She fell swiftly all the way; the parachute did not open. When mechanics approached the limp bundle on the field, they saw ripples under the cloth, saw Bess emerge and lope off toward the hangar where she sleeps...
...until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could use it. Southern California 27, Washington State 7. Half a dozen admirals and the entire corps of Annapolis midshipmen saw the Navy line dam Dartmouth and the Navy backfield use a short forward pass-Gannon to Kirn-to upset the odds, 13-6. Cornell's off-tackle smash had Penn in trouble, but not long. Gentle and Masters threw passes to each other like basketball forwards. Masters and Stevens...
...fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon Rhodes & Co. became M. A. Hanna & Co. Long before he showed his whole political hand Hanna began to take an interest in politics. He attended the Republican conventions of 1888 and 1892, but he bided his time and saw how things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang, and put his candidate across on the first ballot. From that time until Death came for him in his Washington...