Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physics book Skipper Wheeler had read that black absorbs sun rays, holds heat. His black strip, he reasoned, would hold the small heat of the feeble spring sunshine, melt the ice earlier...
...Brown." On finding the landlord snooping in his room, Fred Brown removed his belongings, moved to a large tank near the railroad. Annoyed by curious townsfolk, Fred Brown had the ends of his tank sliced off for doors, hoisted the tank into Tom Green's tree, put a strip of tin around the bottom of the tree so no one could climb up quietly. Below his tree, he put a chicken yard; grew vegetables nearby. Annoyed by chicken thieves, Fred Brown tied a flag to the door of the henhouse so that it would flap when anyone opened...
...power that was to carry him to Boston. Mechanically everything was fine. The ship had had its regular inspection the night before. A perfect trip depended solely on the pilot himself. Mechanics hauled away the chocks. Pridham taxied to the end of the field, roared down the takeoff strip and was off in the fast increasing light-for his last trip. One hour later, by the dawn's early light, he was approaching the Hartford aerodrome, Brainard Airport, at the edge of the Connecticut River. He tipped the nose of his plane to the field, left his motor open...
...disagreeable bird is the starling. Small, dark, impudent and noisy, its only commendable trait is a fondness for potato bugs. Most dismaying is its inexhaustible enthusiasm for reproduction. Vegetarian more often than insectivorous, starlings strip cherry trees, peck at strawberries, punch holes in lettuce leaves. Their voices are as rough as crows; they fight constantly among themselves. A nuisance already in many a U. S. town, starlings had by last week become a pest in the national capital. Washington citizens wrote letters to the newspapers. It seemed only a matter of days until some starling would visit an indignity upon...