Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gullah contains many strange idioms and words such as buckra (meaning white man or devil). According to Dr. Greet, Gullah and the language of Cape Cod are the only genuine dialects within...
Outboard Motorboats last week lined up in Boston to race down the stretch of open water to the Cape Cod Canal, through the canal, Fisher's Island and Long Island Sounds to Flushing, N. Y. Along the coast four destroyers and 40 Coast Guard boats were stationed to mark the course, help the disabled. Seventy boats jockeyed around the starting line until a cannon boomed...
...Some years ago two young men sailed a small boat, built on the south shore of Cape Cod, to the purchaser at Marblehead. As they rounded the Cape a thick fog came on, and thinking they might have to drop the anchor quickly in the night they brought it aft, with the rope fast, and lashed it on the quarter by the cock-pit. When morning came, and they could see somewhat through the haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock...
...Passed a bill appropriating $99,152,885 for deficiencies occurring during the present session including $2,353,747 for U. S. Marines in Nicaragua; $50,000,000 to carry out the Alien Property Act; $6,235,000 for purchase of the Cape Cod canal; $5,000,000 for District of Columbia realty; $17,513,500 for Federal buildings throughout the land. The Bill went to the Senate. It brought the public moneys voted this session to a total of 3.3 billions exclusive of 1.38 billions in permanent appropriations. Total appropriations were 4.1 billions last year. Of the half-billion increase...
...Cod-Liver Oil & Ergosterol. In cod-liver oil, is a substance which contains Vitamin D and which helps both to prevent and cure rickets (bone disease). That substance (provitamin) acts like a solid alcohol (sterol) and is believed to be ergosterol. If ergosterol is exposed to certain wave lengths of ultraviolet light for certain periods the potency of this provitamin is increased so powerfully that, for treating rickets, one ounce of it is as good as six tons of cod-liver oil.-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan...