Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...
...many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums. They overcome the discomfort by pretending to swallow. That action opens the eustachian tubes, allows air pressure on the inner sides of the ear drums to equalize air pressure on the outer sides...
...realty. Last year she had to sell $18,000,000 in securities to protect her small householders. The faithful Krenn threw in his all?$1,260,000. Her brother John was said to have guaranteed her $1,000 a day for life, but neither he nor his father could swallow Krenn...
...their machine, and who are so lacking in decision as to be unable to make necessary reforms when glaring faults point to their own remedies. Until officials take the matter in hand, and decide why they are educating, and how it should be done, American schools will continue to swallow money and time aimlessly to the detriment of the pupils, and consequently of the community...
...declare his love in a way that was not too percipitate. The two had begun at last to recognize each other in a distant sort of way, and once Bunnie began a nod to her. But she made no reply so he hastily changed it to an elaborate swallow. One February day Bunnie sat at his desk frankly ignoring his work, thinking of the girl and staring at a commercial calendar that hung before him. Suddenly a change came over him, the glaze left his eyes, and the thin arms galvanized into action. On February 14th was printed in bold...