Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britannia's ship's bell was told that Queen Mary is keeping that and it was not for sale. In all, the auction netted close to $5,000. The King's signal flags will be draped in the taproom of an English inn; the 102-ft. solid pine mast is to be the flagpole of a country estate; and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brinton are taking home to South Africa two feather pillows upon which once lay the heads of King George & Queen Mary...
...keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented him, hot from the mold, with a solid line of type...
Taken across a field to a river bank, Preacher Williams was lashed 14 times with a mule's belly-strap. Miss Blagden's turn came next. The huskiest of the six swung the belly strap, laid four solid clouts on her back & thighs. Miss Blagden and Preacher Williams were then told never to come back to Crittenden County...
...book fresh from the Government Printing Office. Nodding happily to library workers, doctors and military men whom he passed, Major Hume, a medium-tall Kentuckian, pushed through the swinging shutter of his office door, put hat and coat in a wardrobe whose dried panels rattled, sat down at the solid oak desk which all preceding librarians of the greatest medical library on earth have used...
...profit possibilities of radio. He rushed a tremendous addition to the plant on Philadelphia's Wissahickon Avenue, starting production in it before the cornerstone was officially dedicated. Visitors were awed by Atwater Kent's luxurious general offices, dumfounded when they peeked through a special window to watch solid gold bars dissolving in acid to supply 14 carat plating for the Atwater Kent trade mark. "Mr. Kent," it was briefly explained, "ordered...