Word: butters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counters last week announced that there were 23,000,000 milk cows in the U. S. Roy C. Potts, of the Department of Agriculture, said each U. S. inhabitant drinks an average of 1½ lbs. of milk per day; consumes another 1½ lbs. in butter, cheese and bread...
...there are many thousands of fantastic gourmets who put cream on their bananas, who butter their celery, who eat apples with salt. One of the last, Kenneth M. Hall, of Austin, Tex., an undergraduate of Texas University, last week accidentally sprinkled not salt but poisonous crystals on his apple, ate it, died...
...which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
...play out of Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father, Novelist Dell and Playwright Thomas Mitchell realized that it would be necessary to change the name of the book. The Little Accident was their idea of an improvement; but, having contributed this, they kept their fingers out of the butter and effected a thoroughly charming comedy...
...York, last week, plowed the black Italian freighter Tagliamento, laden with a cargo of white Carrara marble. In the yards of C. D. Jackson Co., Manhattan stone importers, marblemen waited its arrival. For nine months, not a shipload of Carrara had left Italy. What was once the bread-and-butter of all marbles had become a U. S. rarity...