Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bandits never saw who fired at them. At the open window of his office, above the bank, wearing his white coat, stood Dentist Frank L. Hardy with a smoking rifle in his hands. He likes to hunt deer, had scored five hits out of six shots...
...WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them,' replied the American. 'Ah, now that big tree over there' (the train had halted) 'what is that?' asked the Englishman. 'Why that...
...Congo Museum in Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were probably some kind of domestic peacock. Dr. Chapin knew better. The moth...
...first year at Springfield College (Mass.) where his father Amos Alonzo Stagg made his coaching debut 47 years ago. Coach Paul Stagg saw his team trounced by Harvard...
...find a gun-toting Warren County farmer guarding his blackamoors when he got there, keen James Keen sim ply persuaded a visitor from Atlanta to put on a shabby shirt and pants, shoulder a musket, go out in a field and pose near some Negro pickers. When Sheriff Hogan saw the Keen photograph in his paper, he resented the implication that Warren County was holding its blacks in peonage. He set out to arrest the man with the gun. No one could identify him, so Sheriff Hogan challenged the AP to prove the picture was taken in Warren County...