Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power Plant, our constantly enlarging campus has been heated successfully with North Dakota lignite. . . . We are indeed proud of the achievements of Mr. Anderson. . . . However, we are also equally proud of the North Dakota lignite coal development in our State. We hasten to assure Mr. Anderson that if one clay he sees fit to return to the fold temporarily, we shall guarantee to make it amply warm for him-with North Dakota lignite...
...Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington, Federal Reserve Governor Eccles, Comptroller General McCarl, Reconstruction Finance Chairman Jesse Jones, Tennessee Valley Authoritarian Arthur Ernest Morgan, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, National Industrial Recovery Board's Samuel Clay Williams, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Leo T. Crowley, National Labor Relations Board's Francis Biddle, National Emergency Council's Donald Richberg, Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Joseph H. Choate Jr. Tail-enders in precedence were Mrs. Malvina Thompson Schneider, Mrs. James M. Helm and Miss...
Despite the fact that price-fixing- price-raising at the start-often cut into volume, reduced employment and retarded recovery, an amazing number of businessmen are still enthusiastic about it. But last fortnight S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, NIRB Chairman, revealed that the Administration would frown on any attempt to inject price-fixing provisions into new NRA legislation, arguing that an NRA floor under wages was, in effect, a floor under prices...
...feats of daring. Pet dislikes are fighting and arguing, both of which he thinks are "needless and quite pointless, since nothing is ever settled by them." In the use of his hands Bunny is backward. Prescribed for him and other bright pupils at the Ethical Culture School are carpentry, clay modeling, painting, drawing, paper cutting...
Egypt. Near the pyramid of Senusret at Lisht, 30 mi. south of Cairo, in clay undisturbed since the Twelfth Dynasty, an expedition of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art turned up four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory...