Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas has been "meteorite-conscious" for nearly half a century. In 1885 a farmer named Kimberly and his wife moved to a farm in Kiowa County. They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens. Mrs. Kimberly, who in childhood had been shown a meteorite by a teacher, told her husband what the black stones were. He snorted. Despite his gibes and those of the neighborhood, Mrs. Kimberly started collecting the meteorites. For five years she wrote to scientists, met discouraging skepticism. Finally an optimistic savant arrived, examined...
...days relief work since Christmas at $1.20 a day. This family shares its two rag-covered, rickety beds with a young woman who had nowhere else to turn. When the reporters called, not a scrap of food was in the house. All they ever have is cornbread; the meal barrel was empty...
...roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
...topknot shows that a year has not elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only 98°, they found it cooled their hands to put them under their armpits...
...menace. As the principal owner of Arnold Bernstein Line, biggest of the transatlantic independents, he had more than held his own against an international shipping combine by the simple method of selling transportation cheaper than anyone else. Hugely successful at 45, he had bought Red Star Line lock, stock & barrel from International Mercantile Marine for $1,000,000 last month after practically running that 61-year-old concern off the sea with his cut rates (TIME, Feb. 18). Now that he had added the Pennland and Westernland to his fleet, he might do the same to other old-established lines...