Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well did Benjamin Allin know that it takes more than sound engineering, machinery and strong backs to build a port. The trick is to operate one. By 1933, Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed...
Cause. Until last week the cause of measles was uncertain. Bacteriologists for years suspected streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
...skiff manned by two Negroes, carrying a young couple and their baby to a new home farther west. The long-haired young man, whose weathered face belied his trade, was a storekeeper with a passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars and driftwood, pulled...
...Fair opened, these 18 could look back on the biggest publishing year since 1929. Last year produced 8,584 new titles -not as many as the biggest pre-Depression total, but an increase of 25% over the year before. October, traditionally the big month of the fall publishing season, saw 1,023 new books published. Macmillan, largest U. S. publisher, also a major producer of textbooks, brought out 562 new titles last year, will have published 650 by the end of 1937. Harper published 230 in 1936, has scheduled 265 for 1937; Farrar & Rinehart, 130 compared with 115. Even...
...Spoon River Anthology Poet Masters took an on-the-level look into a country graveyard, recorded what he saw with somewhat embittered candor, somewhat graveled acquiescence. In The New World, with a more opinionated candor and a more griped acquiescence he looks at U. S. history not on its level but reverentially from below and disgustedly from above, presents accordingly a vertically wall-eyed view of it. But his straightforward earnestness is as honest as his previous straightforward sight, and all U. S. readers will find themselves rising to their feet at Poet Masters' benediction...