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Bows of both vessels were badly stove in. The Premier and Mrs. Lyons, native-born Australians who have never before been overseas, stood nervously peering into the fog while the Niagara sent...
...quick-thinking, he was soon moved up to the position of works manager and finally, in 1928, became president. Quiet, conservative Mr. Tew kept on living in comparative modesty at nearby Hudson where, always investigating new ways to make rubber, he used to putter with latex on the kitchen stove...
...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...
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...