Word: tacking
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...Tack...
...Mount Morris, N. Y., a joker put a tack on the chair of Angelina Ceronit, who sat on the tack, squeaked, contracted blood poisoning, died...
...iron tack were put near a mountain of pure iron, the tack would weigh more than it did before. This scientific conditional relative known as "induced mass," Author Taine has made the basis for a hair-raising yarn of an African primeval god, a subterranean mass of meteoric metal whose emanations corrupt the souls of men and change their bodies; the startling adventures among a tribe of degenerated human beings of three sane Chicago scientists and their pretty secretary. The Iron Star is unusual among thrillers not only in its subject-matter but in the skeptical and light-hearted...
...President Coolidge asked the Senate to let the U. S. join the Court. The Senate's answer was to tack five reservations to its approval. The reservations had to be accepted by the other nations adhering to the Court, but the reservations were of such a kind that only seven lesser nations out of 47 agreed...
...limited tariff coalition might well have had the support of President Hoover were it not for two miscellaneous items added to their tariff baggage. One was the Debenture Plan which, forced out of the Farm Bill, Senator Norris and his followers were now determined to tack on the Tariff Bill. The other was the proposal of Virginia's Senator Glass to impose a $5 tax on every $100 share of stock purchased for speculation. The test for "speculation" was to be whether the stock was held for less than two months...