Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, the workmen's voice is stifled?as Labor sees it. Hence the rejoicing of Labor, when a decision is handed down like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...
...from the opening gun of the American Henley race for 150-pound boats on the Schuylkill River last Saturday, the Crimson oarsmen lagged behind in the wake to fight for secondary position with Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Pulling sluggishly in the final quarter-mile, the Harvard entry took the wash of the three other shells and brought up the rear a length behind the Eli eight...
...Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery...
...Princeton 150-pound crew opened its season with an easy victory over the M. I. T. lightweights that defeated Harvard the following week in the Charles River Basin. Two weeks ago the Yale 150-pound combination took the wash from the Cornell and Pennsylvania shells at Philadelphia, finishing a poor third. As a result, on the basis of earlier races. Princeton is conceded the advantage in tomorrow's contest...
...hurry away from the circus (Mrs. Coolidge and Suzanne Boone stayed on) was an engagement to press a button to send a current to ignite a dynamite charge to blow through the Great Northern R. R.'s new tunnel under the Cascade Mountains 100 miles east of Seattle, Wash. Many a citizen was surprised to learn that this Great Northern tunnel, 7.79 miles long, is the longest tunnel in the western world, 1.66 miles longer than the Moffat Tunnel through the Rockies near Denver, of which so much was heard when it was holed through a year...