Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chip of the Blarney Stone from Blarney Castle. Ireland was sent by one John Patrick O'Brien of Dublin to New York's prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. Said he: "I will treasure this souvenir with the hope that my future career, as in the past, will reflect glory on the native land of my father and mother...
...territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild the Opera House she sold its original 750 broad-bottomed hickory chairs for $100 apiece, formed the Central City Opera House Association. Denver socialites got down on their hands & knees to scrub the floors, chip away caked dirt. Artist Allen Tupper True restored the murals and ceiling. Somebody contributed a new crystal chandelier. Last year Denverites trooped into the opera house for the first festival: a revival of oldtime Camllle, played by woebegone Lillian Gish staged by Designer Robert Edmond Jones (TIME...
...15th race, reviving ghosts of the oldtime crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they could not drive them for fear of losing one of their two suits of old sails, losing...
...purchase 6,250,000 shares of Blue Ridge at $10 a share, and the public was offered a million shares of preferred at $51.50, a million shares of common at $20. The public was not expected necessarily to buy with cash. It was invited to trade its blue chip stocks for Blue Ridge shares. The offer was: to take shares of Allied Chemical (last week selling around $85) for $324, of American Telephone (last week $91) at $293, of Atchison (last week $42) for $275 and of General Electric (last week $15) at $395; of U. S. Steel (last week...
...fifth day the whaler Globe 5 sighted Captain Riiser-Larsen, his two companions and his stiff-legged dog and picked them up as they were being blown seaward on a chip of ice 100 yd. long, 50 yd. wide...