Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck (heat insulated and requiring no ice ) can deliver 2,000 quarts of milk weighing 4,000 lb. The same 2,000 quarts delivered in a non-insulated five-ton truck would include 4,000 lb. of milk, 4.000 lb. of glass, 2,500 lb. of wooden cases, 1,000 lb. of ice. The Metropolitan New York area consumes about 110,000,000 quarts of milk a month, of which less than 10% is delivered in paper packages. In the Philadelphia area, only other region in which milk is sold in quantity in paper, the paper percentage also is less...
...WOODEN PILLOW-Carl Fallas- Viking...
According to Pearl Buck, the Chinese are akin to Americans, the Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that...
This gate, and 770 feet of decorative iron fence, which will be used to replace the existing wooden structure on Quincy street, is the gift of the class of 1908. The fence which surrounds the Yard was built in sections over a period of years extending from 1890 to 1915, and no two are quite alike; however, the designs have been made so that all that sections will now be in harmony...
...spills numbered 28. Next night Norman Hill pedaled into Dave Lands. The latter was only slightly damaged but the Californian dislocated his collarbone. Hour later, Eddie Testa relieved his partner, Echevaria, by bowling into him. So great was the impact that Echevaria's pedal broke through the wooden surface of the track. Echevaria retired with severe bruises, and Testa paired with Peden to leave nine teams in the race. In the last hour, with three teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling at the end of the fourth sprint, gamely remounted in seven minutes. Then...