Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plant, a bakery, several power plants, and the garment factories in New York City. The most astounding thing to them was the wages paid, especially to women workers. So far as the press was concerned, they were a bit slow in formulating their estimates of what they saw, but one of them said: "One can observe the close co-operation between the worker and the employer at once. The wages, of course, are unusually high. It is my impression that high wages bring high production, although some hold it is the other way about and that high production brings high...
...institution. I was walking down the street of Austin one day in the hot sun going to town and Mr. House drove by me in his one-horse buggy. He drove a one-horse buggy then; he drove it himself. No pretension; meek as he could be. And he saw a poor boy walking along in the hot sun. He knew nothing of me; he did not know my name, but he called and asked me to get in the buggy and ride to town with...
...saw, above the white neckband of the operating gown, a kindly old face, a face pinker than her own wan, suffering-drawn features. She saw blue eyes clear and gentle and compassionate. About those eyes she saw tiny wrinkles and knew for certain that the doctor could laugh, would gladly romp with her when she was well; and the tight feeling of fear about her beard! How nicely it ran down longer afraid. How "she would like to run her fingers through his silky beard. Plow nicely it ran down from his white hair past his big ears and around...
...unconscious boy's head was twisted so that his right temple lay uppermost. Two quick, accurate, preplanned incisions. A thin-lined six-inch triangle showed faintly. This the surgeon peeled back and let the flap lie out of the way. Then into the skull bone with the saw. Slow, careful rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass...
...farmer's daughter heard the noise, saw a bluish cloud of smoke ascend. An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...