Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
...more than this on issues of Government policy (TIME, Oct. 26) but in England many authorities consider it "unconstitutional" and last week, when new King George VI & Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about...
...Saionji, now the 87-year-old Last of the Genro and chief adviser to the Throne. To the Versailles Peace Conference shrewd old Saionji took the then young Konoye, baptized him in diplomacy and statecraft. After revered Saionji returned to Japan he continued to groom the Prince with care, saw to it that Konoye at only 42 became President of the House of Peers, most of whose members are three decades older. It became a settled thing among Japanese insiders that he was one day to be Premier, and the Japanese public are charmed by his anecdotes of when...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...looked beyond his own lifetime and remembered the old saw about "three generations from shirtsleeves to shirt-sleeves," he might have expected that his descendants would fight over his money and that by diffusion if not dissipation the Leiter millions would some day become a memory...