Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses of struggle and achievement. He has pursued ambition along the corn-row, across the furrow, into laboratory, down mine shaft, into great administrative and engineering projects. . . . "His university is Leland Stanford, but his true Alma Mater is the map of the world. . . . "A vote for Hoover is a vote for belching smokestacks, flaring furnaces, clanging hammers, busy looms, honest and permanent agricultural relief - a vote for peak production, for steady...
ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
Since the election was held Vice-President-Elect Francesco Beiro has died and been replaced by Dr. Enrique Martinez. He and Dr. Irigoyen solemnly took their oaths of office last week in the Congressional Building, received a Congressional cheer, and then set off down the shaft of the dumbbell, flanked on either hand by deliriously joyful Fiesta throngs...
...hundred medium-sized motor cars are less ponderous than its weight of 260 tons. Taller than a five story house (55 feet), the single shaft of stone is too large to be carried by any railway car in Italy. Yet last week Signer Benito Mussolini commanded that the monolith be moved to Rome, there to become "The Mussolini Monument." How to obey...
...week, they confused the tenant of the penthouse. British-born. 35-year-old H. Gordon Duval, publisher of The Club-Fellow, society weekly, rose early to tend his shrubs. He intended to open the bathroom door. But he opened the elevator door instead. He fell the length of the shaft, 14 stories, to instant death...