Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, Minn., John Johnson, 8, famed in his family for attracting calamity, was playing in a pit when a sand slide began. Trying to scramble out. he tripped, fell, accidentally forced his head into an empty 2-lb. coffee tin. Two tons of sand rolled over him. When rescuers du? him out eight minutes later, muzzled John Johnson was conscious, unhurt...
...shall do a job I wanted to do last year but could not," said Lord Baldwin, and all present braced themselves for the announcement. The Earl then capped his climax: "I am going to go through my papers for the last 18 years. Those papers are reposing in a tin box, and if there is anything in them which will hang anybody then I will destroy them. ... It will keep me quiet for three months...
...time they had plugged the hole with a piece of pine, the submarine was resting on the bottom of the river. They cranked it across the Shrewsbury, made it crawl obediently through the mud and, as a demonstration for skeptical townspeople, even made it scoop up old tin cans and clamshells. It was, says Simon Lake, the first submarine that really performed. Rivals have claimed the same thing for their inventions...
...pictures at the rate of three a day. He ran home from P.S. 42, where he was in the fourth grade (he would have skipped a grade except that he got scarlet fever), drank a glass of milk, and hurried across the street to paint, using an old muffin tin for a palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views of Claremont Parkway and Washington Avenue, and the scene that meets...