Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...systems to hospital authorities have seemed foolproof. Babies could be handled efficiently. They could be shuffled around. They could be kept in cribs, if need be, like boxes on a shoe store shelf. And identity would be kept...
...disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...Angeles, Calif., Capt. John Olson of the S. S. Quinalt eyed himself in his mirror, removed his $500 diamond stickpin, detached his necktie, laid them on the shelf over the basin, shaved. Soon he gave a shout, raced from his cabin dived overboard, swam to the Quinalt's scuppers, trod water, cupped his hands beneath the pouring stream of wastage. His anxious frown became a glad grin when the $500 diamond stickpin tumbled out and he caught...
...current Chinese crisis is producing an entire shelf of books on modern Chinese history, but not one whose author dares to predict the future trend of Chinese development. Best of the newest histories are CHINA YESTERDAY AND TODAY-Edward Thomas Williams- Crowell ($4.50), and CHINA AND THE POWERS-Henry Kittredge Norton-John...
...Chambersburg, Pa., one Tommy Ruby, 4, took a .22 calibre pistol from the kitchen shelf, went out to the garden where his mother knelt planting seeds, pointed the pistol at her neck, pulled the trigger. . . . She soon died. . . . While the coroner questioned him, Tommy snatched up a long knife, screamed, "I'll cut you up!" Concerning his mother's death, he boasted, "NOW I can get matches...