Word: knots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devil are you doing up a persimmon tree?' asked the General. 'Eatin' 'simmons, Gen'l, the private replied. 'What, eating persimmons in July!' exclaimed Stonewall. 'Why, man, don't you know they'll draw your stomach into a hard knot?' 'Waal, Gen'l, I figgered on that. I 'lowed to swink up my belly to fit my rations...
...save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle...
...other respects the Harvard lineup remains unchanged from that which last weekend conquered Princeton and Cornell, the former of which had its tail tied in another knot by the Lions on Wednesday...
Settling down to his main argument, Mayor Wilson expounded the Wilson Plan. Major knot in the P. R. T. tangle is the existence of what are known as "underlying companies." A considerable portion of the trackage over which the P. R. T. runs its cars is not owned by P. R. T., but by some 20 companies to which the original franchises were granted many years ago. Stock in these companies is owned by the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families. For the privilege of using these rights-of-way, P. R. T. pays annual leases which amount...
Tama-nishiki weighs 300 lb., wears his hair curled in a knot on top of his head, dresses in a 15-lb. fringed apron and an enormous belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years...