Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four day later U. S. Marines moving to support the detachment which held Quilali again shed blood, theirs and the enemies. A Marine was killed; five wounded, including Lieutenant Merton A. Richal. No count was possible of rebel casualties. Fleeing comrades carried them away...
...pointed out that huge hangars; great ground crews; and extraordinarily expensive terminal equipment are requisite for dirigibles. In the U. S. there are only two hangars; Lakehurst and Scott Field, Belleville, Ill. Dirigibles cannot, like ariplanes, be landed on any flat run of ground and wheeled into a convenient shed. They must have home life...
...after all, who will blame the Student Vagabond? Who, indeed! Who is so hard hearted as not to shed a tear--even only figuratively speaking at the thought of the grievous impediment which the freezing slush of Massachusetts avenue would offer to progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those...
Statistics are always refreshing, for when conscientiously applied they cannot fail to shed a new light upon the most commonplace things. When chewing gum has fulfilled all its natural and unnatural functions, it may always be laid end to end and may be made to stretch as far as desirable. Cosmetics represent a fraction of the world's wealth, and cigarettes are statistically valuable as potential poisons. There is comfort in such realizations when the ordinary use of things palls, so that it may not be for nothing that statistics have lately been applied to pedestrians waiting for traffic signals...
...Stories. Wm. Leeds, the peddler in Last Night, is not merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles...