Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astonished. He had been a quiet, moody fellow all the eight years they were married. Lately he had begun to worry because of trouble with other Columbus truck drivers. Maybe, she thought, the time last year he bumped his head while unloading butter had something to do with his sudden talkativeness. She took him up to his parents' home at rustic little Edison a few miles north of Columbus...
Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...
Guess mr. Carmers next book will be entitled Sudden Departure or why I left Alabama so quickly, I won't say anymore becus I no Mr. carmer will want to reveal all in his next book, that oughta...
Reason for the sudden peace was that Harry Bridges, Australian chairman of the strike committee, had told his followers that they could not fight machine-guns and bayonets. The President's strike board, Archbishop Hanna, Lawyer Cushing and Assistant Secretary of Labor Mcgrady sat powerless. Nominally the only issue between the employers and longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because...
...waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found murdered also, a dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed...