Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your recent article [TIME, July 12] about digging worms in Maine omits one interesting detail. On the road running between Belfast and Waterville and between Belfast and Augusta, I have more than once seen signs reading "Cornfed night crawlers." The first time I saw this sign, I was puzzled and stopped to ask a farmer what it meant. "Worms, and fat ones," he explained with scorn for my ignorance...
Nevertheless the Governor did not sign the bill. While it lay on his desk he listened to bitter protests from labor leaders who saw in the "otherwise" clause an open invitation to a reactionary court to forbid picketing altogether. Limiting picketing to those on strike precluded even demonstrations by strikers' wives & daughters. Last week one hour before the law would have become effective Governor Murphy vetoed...
...Philadelphia one day last week a pilot named George Townson took off from an airport in a plane that resembled an ordinary biplane. He circled the field, landed normally, few minutes later took off again. While he was in midair, watchers on the ground saw the upper wing begin to revolve like the vanes of a gyro. This time George Townson landed in the steep, space-saving drop characteristic of a gyro, came to earth gently...
Some 48 hours after Policeman Kelly's stabbing, Sergeant Harry Fairbanks nodded in the Tallahassee police station. A gun in his ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
...sport pages last week was the way in which the dispute had been allowed to start. Well aware that a group of high-spirited young celebrities returning from abroad might talk unwisely to reporters, the Professional Golfers Association dispatched two representatives to round up the players before they saw the Press. The P. G. A. representatives missed the cutter which took reporters down the bay to meet the boat. Trying frantically to close the incident, the P. G. A. last week talked about sending a publicity man with the next U. S. Ryder Cup team, if there...