Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never seen one of her moving pictures. Honest and cross my heart. I have told my wife this, too, but she just wags her head in a kind of "You're not kiddin' me, Brother" fashion and says she knows what she saw in a magazine...
...street I saw a white woman crouched in the middle of Nanking Road, assisting her daughter in giving birth to a child, while a hail of death pelted from the skies. . . . Ambulance attendants pawed over bleeding figures in the street, selecting only those who had a chance to live...
...Orleans Socialist named Richard Whitten, who left last autumn to work for his party. Commonwealth's most energetic official remained Charlotte ("Chucky") Moskowitz, executive secretary and wife of Lucien Koch's brother Raymond. Redhaired, 29, and freckled, "Chucky" Moskowitz raised money for the College, saw it through its legal and extra-legal baitings, got it electrical and water systems, a printing plant and the dairy in which the cows are now fed on the un-Marxian principle of "to each according to what she produces." Miss Moskowitz, during the last of her twelve years at Commonwealth, helped steer...
...police motor squad had patrolled the course, the heats began. In the third heat, Jack Wyatt, of Anderson, Ind., wrecked his car by crashing into a dog. After five hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select...
...World War the famed Antwerp zoo was sadly depleted. New York's comradely N. Y. Zoological Park shipped to Antwerp 325 birds and animals. Thus, when Dr. William Reid Blair, genial director of the Zoological Park, made a bid for the Buta okapi, the Belgian Government saw fit to repay past kindness by giving him to Dr. Blair at a price far below that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed to civilization before...