Word: waters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course of perhaps two hours winding of the horn, the player will have to pour nearly a glass of water out of its coils and crooks. This is not spit. Shame on you! The horn acts as a still. The breath of the performer (and your breath) is a watery vapor. Remember the mist it makes when blown on a cold window pane? The coils of the horn distill out most...
Closed for the third week was the lovely, troublous port of San Francisco, a vital artery of Pacific Coast commerce. Longshoreman Harry Bridges and water front employers were at outs. Coastal businessmen and inland farmers suffered, drummed denunciations at durable Mr. Bridges...
...costly, disputatious confusion, the immediate issue between Harry Bridges and the employers was notably narrow. Normally employed on the San Francisco water front are some 1,300 clerks and checkers-key workers, because they are the ones who keep tabs on cargo, representing shippers and shipowners at the loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges...
...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
...centre. She got rid of that, made the room more habitable. Now it has white curtains with red ribbons at the windows, a new floor, a globe of the world hanging from the ceiling, a map stand, a phonograph (temporarily out of order) with a few records, a water cooler, a mirror, soap and paper towels. Until this fall it had no electric lights, but Miss Campbell raised enough money for that by euchre parties among the parents...