Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shelf, It's hard to believe...
...roof was about to fall in on Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, while his latest blueprints to tackle the housing emergency gathered dust on a White House shelf...
...furnace can be used as a space heater, embedded in a wall between two rooms to heat both, or stuck on a closet shelf to heat two or more rooms through short ducts. Two such units, said Stewart-Warner President James S. Knowlson, can heat the average six-room house, can be installed by one man. Cost: $200 a heater...
Dick jumped in like a man trying to beat a run on the bank. He went for the tigers first-they cost $1,000 apiece. But when he drove them up to the shelf with the buggy whip, big lions piled up at the chute and began killing little lions...
...Clerk Joseph Braunspiegel had just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...