Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him a trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren.' He shook his head, saying, 'Go on.' We continued then without...
...happy occasion." Rostron also lamented the Mauretania, his former command. Three German-built liners are now flagships for three steamship lines flying colors that fought Germany ten years ago: The Leviathan (Vaterland) United States Line; the Majestic (Bismarck)-White Star line; the Berengaria (Imperator)-Cunard Line. The past week saw all three simultaneously present in New York harbor...
...Then this fool stepped back and swung his right against my jaw with every bit of his power. It landed flush, and stiffened me where I stood. Nobody saw the punch but Eddie Eagan who was standing there. And that was the last thing I remembered for two days...
...County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more farmers like Flax Grower Raskob, the U. S. Department of Agriculture would not need to keep repeating, stressing its points. Hundreds of keen chemists, bacteriologists, plant pathologists bend busily over...
...which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked. Yet the housekeeper and six servants remembered hearing no unusual noises that night. No footprints were found in the garden. Two private watchmen in the street saw no intruder enter the house. Art objects and furnishings were missing, but jewels had not been disturbed...