Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great improvement in the industry is due not only to the improved world-demand for copper, but also to the exhaustion of war scrap, which took place gradually during the less prosperous years of 1921 and 1922. Stocks of refined copper decreased about 5,000,000 pounds in September and on Oct. 1 were about 200,000,000 pounds...
...Raymond Estey, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Superintendent of the Sunday School, listened to the debate and then resigned from the Church, declaring that he was " through." "... Fight, fight, fight! ... If I want a fight I can go down to my office and pick a scrap. When I was converted to Jesus Christ, I didn't expect. ..." He will seek another church...
...President and the Congress of the United States that the 14th and 15th Amendments of the U. S. Constitution be made something more than a scrap of paper...
...Browning's home is in Ogden, Utah. He was born in 1855, and his genius runs in the family, for Jonathan Browning, his father, was a gunsmith in the Civil War period. John M. made his first gun at 13, of scrap iron in his father's shop. He patented his breech-loading rifle in 1879, a repeating rifle in 1884, and a box magazine in 1895. He holds in all 132 patents on rapid-fire weapons of all sizes, many of which are manufactured by the Winchester and Colt companies. His automatic guns have been adopted...
...just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point is too fully confirmed by history; it is Turner who dies in poverty, not Wellington; Socrates who drinks the hemlock, not Pericles...