Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon's statement so impressed the Judiciary Committee that without formal action it agreed not to question him further. Senator McKellar, however, 'thought he saw a last opportunity for nipper-snapping in the fact that Gulf Oil operates 29 "sea vessels," that as a stockholder in Gulf Oil Mr. Mellon is an "owner ... in part" of these vessels...
...tell a story, a Warner brother took a bow, silence fell. The crowd which had paid $5.50 for seats grew uneasy. At length it was announced that the sound device had been tampered, the operators kidnaped by unknown assailants. Miami glowered at Palm Beach. Next evening, while Miami crowds saw Show Boat for 50?, the "gala" opening was held in Palm Beach. On the day of the first Manhattan performance last week, Miss Morgan was in court, charged with violating the 18th Amendment in her night club. She did not take the stand. Her witnesses insisted that she was only...
...Mexico City, Lieut. Joaquin Garcia Bolanos of the Mexican air force died last week defending the good names of President Portes Gil and U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Returning home late at night, Lieutenant Bolanos saw some rough-looking men pasting up posters insulting to the President and the Ambassador. Lieutenant Bolanos went home and told his father. They returned to the scene, remonstrated. Aviator Bolanos rushed forward and attempted to wrest the offensive posters from one of the men. The billsticker drew a pistol and shot him dead. Despite the sacrifice of Aviator Bolanos, police next morning discovered...
...generations Scotchmen saw salmon swim up and down their rivers, saw small black-barred fish swim down to the sea every fall, scratched their heads without seeing any connection. One day the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeeper had a suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...
More than two years ago, three doctors of the Harvard Medical School did a weird deed which they saw fit to keep secret until last week. Two female English bulldog litter mates were received in the Harvard laboratory. They were observed and found to grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy...