Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burned.-Journalist Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty, More Power to You). ¶ Within ten years fruit from California or Turkestan will be served in London with all the freshness and taste of freshly gathered fruit by suspended animation of both enzymes and micro-organisms.- Researcher Charles S. Ash of California Packing Corp. Tartly the New York Times summed up the symposium: "The responses reveal 300 leaders fluttering unimaginatively on the ground. ... It is impossible for them to conceive Utopia without our cement, our improved bakery, our metal furniture, our tractors, our rustless wire-rope, our quick-drying lacquers...
Funeral services for Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, who died in Milwaukee on Tuesday, will be held this morning at 10.30 o'clock in his home at 6 Ash Street. The funeral will be strictly private, with less than 25 people in attendance, mostly members of the immediate family. Harvard will be represented by President Conant and President-emeritus Lowell...
...wife's illness). Katy directors left the presidency vacant, elected as chairman bold, shrewd Matthew Scott Sloan who abruptly resigned from the presidency of New York Edison Co. in 1932. "Matt" Sloan, whose first job was removing dead bugs from street lamps and who was not above inspecting ash pits when he reached the top (see cut), was still a major executive without an executive post when he went on Katy's board of directors last year. With him went William Marcus Greve, onetime president of New York Investors, Inc., now in receivership, who is under indictment...
Ambergris is hard to recognize. Though it is usually ash-grey, it may be white, black, yellow or mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...Terrace. The tight white coat of the wire-haired fox terrier Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston was hound-marked with tan; the silky white of the pointer Benson of Crombie marked with liver. Snowflake, the Old English sheepdog, looked like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled the ring; eyed their carriage, gait and spirit; felt their shoulders, briskets and coats; solemnly pondered his decision...