Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guard's story is that the two Negro convicts-Barnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunk-were put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went out, that at night they slept without fire, with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes say their feet froze because it was wintry co!d. The chain-gang bosses...
...Adjourned pondering the advice of Tennessee's Commissioner of Education Walter Dewey Cocking: "Go to your neighborhood or country store and buy a stick of licorice. Then sit down on a cracker box and talk about the things kids like. When a group gathers around the stove in the community store, they've established the true and original forum. Kids get a valuable part of their education from such gatherings. A successful teacher will take part in them...
...Patent Office refused an application for a stove patent because Emanuel Swedenborg had invented an identical stove 200 years before. The unlucky stove-inventor was one of a myriad of scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before...
Purpose of the trip was to demonstrate an invention that used charcoal instead of gasoline for fuel. By the time Dover was reached the charcoal burner, a five-foot stove that steamed and sizzled on the running board, had been abandoned. Colonel Christmas of the Indian Civil Service had organized the trip because he made a point of never returning to India over a route he had traveled before. Now his leave was almost up and delays drove him frantic. Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep. He drove with fierce intensity, getting...
...indulge in a little purely personal feeling, the censorship in the vicinity of Boston is to me detestable, narrow-minded and undoubtedly something that should have gone out with the stove-pipe hat and knee-britches. Furthermore, even were the articles in the Lampoon to be taken at face-value, I should find them faint-hearted, wishy-washy, just barely pornographic. As they were, I nearly died laughing. Ask any Harvard-man what he thinks of the last Lampoon, and if they are the same men I've asked, you will find them whole-heartedly in its praise. After...