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Word: camel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winston-Salem" to any well-informed man and he will snap right back at you: "Biggest, fastest-growing city in North Carolina. Population three years ago, 48,000; now, about 70,000. Home of Camel cigarets and the rest of the Reynolds Tobacco products. Been booming like Billy-get-out lately. Livest town down South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winston-Salem | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...marble lobby of the Hotel Robert E. Lee, the illuminated original of Camel's famed advertisement, "Standard Equipment," greets all comers, whose attention is next attracted by a tablet emblazoned with Winston-Salem boom statistics. With those statistics on view, it is natural for many a Winston-Salemite to believe that all the world lives in his prosperous city. But there is a cosmopolitan aristocracy there also, whose spacious country homes you come to while driving out of town on the well-paved roads. There are the Chathams, the Grays, Haneses,* the Reynoldses, whose sons and daughters go north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winston-Salem | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left by the camel. The War refugee, returned to his Flanders or Vosges farm, is not insensible to the value of the bodies rotting helterskelter across his pitted acres. AH these are organic manures useful for circumscribed farms, but not for wide areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Potash and Klein | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...dissatisfaction lived on. Last week some 20 students were given the exercise of sketching, in a classic pose, a pendulous woman well known to several generations of Beaux Artists. They worked busily. In half an hour the master called for the sketches, discovered 20 lifelike representations of a camel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camel | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...main point of the Wesleyan speakers was that the present athletic program has failed to live up to what they termed the "democratic ideal". The traditional figure of the tall wagging the dog was discarded by the losers for one of more ancient derivation, that of the camel crowding the Arab out of his tent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERSATILE DEBATERS WIN ON BOTH SIDES | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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