Word: ates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris Mills, Inc. two years ago and directed subsequent tests. Sales claims for the germ flour: added nutritive value, superior aroma, flavor, palatability, long-keeping quality without preservatives, 25% reduction in amount of shortening needed. Chief claim: germ flour improves metabolism so greatly as to increase consumption; if everybody ate an extra slice of bread each day, 50,000,000 extra bushels of U. S. wheat would be used annually...
Hopkins. The dullest of the quartet, "Uncle" Mark Hopkins was the only one who weighed less than 200 lb. Thin, worried, cautious, lazy, stubborn, plaintive, he ate little meat, drank no liquor and, even as a wealthy man, grew vegetables for his own table, selling the surplus. When he planned a quiet cottage on Nob Hill, his fun-loving wife, who greatly admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony...
...word auspice, meaning sign or omen, is telescoped from the Latin words avis, bird, and specere, to see. In ancient Rome the appearance and behavior of birds-whether they were eagles, vultures, owls, crows, or ravens, which direction they flew, how they ate grains of corn-determined whether public assemblies should be held, whether armies should attack, whether merchants should be bullish or bearish...
...companies engaged in foreign commerce, this arrangement meant calm seas ahead. But to lines in domestic coastwise trade it presaged disaster. Those that had mail subsidies lost them, got nothing in return. For those operating between Atlantic and Pacific ports, Panama Canal tolls ate heartily into whatever profit remained. For such companies the choice has been: 1) to transfer ships to foreign trade to be eligible for subsidies, or 2) to founder...
...wild horses into herds of sheep to discourage sheep-grazing on that part of the range. But the sheep kept coming. Coolidge says the legend of quick-shooting cowboys is pure myth: because they believed the law would hold them guilty if there was any violence, they went unarmed, ate dirt, bowed and scraped before arrogant sheepherders...