Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini-Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn...
Bids were opened at Washington for an elevator to travel 250 ft. a minute, to replace the 100 ft. a minute elevator in the Washington Monument. The old elevator has been out of order; and at present the 553 ft. shaft is a "walk...
Quite splintered was the Tuscan's oaken shaft...
Unhappy Sir--It is best to peruse this letter in bed. If this is inconvenient, at least don't read it at a stairway, elevator shaft, or near non-resilient or sharp objects. Move away from the window now, take a deep breath and hold it. One, two, three: Your wife and kiddies dropped dead today from--Woop there! Steady man! Watch out for . . . .! As I was saying, fell dead from the Waldorf-Astoria roof. They were all playing tag football when the wife stepped back for a long drop. And do you know that flagstaff in the square below...
Ever since the unusual stimulation provided by the World War, the deep-shaft, low grade copper mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...