Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap...
...stamps in the world); the "St. Louis" 20-cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some old letters in the attic...
...land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn,* the first verse of which came to Dr. van Dyke one fine morning last spring while he was knee-deep in his favorite troutstream. Forgetting line, flies, fish and footing, Dr. van Dyke fetched out a scrap of paper and wrote...
...Sonken & Galamba, Kansas City scrap-iron millionaires, buy up abandoned western railroads, ship the rails to China. This procedure is more profitable to them than shipping junk to the glutted, low-price scrap markets of the eastern...
...same agreement annually since 1914 and has a rule allowed it to pass without editorial comment. Again this year it would be left unnoticed were it not obviously necessary to point out that the agreement is regarded by a large number of the more prominent clubs as a mere scrap of paper...