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Word: sawn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable, the saw mill was sold. . . . The Samoans do not take a great interest in the Department of Agriculture . . . administered by the chief radio electrician. . . . The annual Fono [Islands' native council] recommended that the selling and serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Somnolent Samoa | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Butter, wheat, barley, oats, corn, poultry, raw cotton, petroleum, wood and timber hewn, sawn, planed or dressed; pit props, pit wood, staves and sleepers; plywood, builders' woodwork including window frames, doors and parts thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Aimed & Cocked | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...pine tree on the hills of Maryland-through many summers' heats and winters' snows, Felled, carted, quartered, sawn, a metamorphosis within a week. And then a century buried deep within the White House walls, Unseen, unsung, but one of myriads holding firm together the storied structure. Until, a new age came and replaced steel for wood, then months upon the dump, The dump cart actually arrived jor one last ride- And then a rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Jingle Bells | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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