Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Churchmen therefore were justly irate to discover that their newspapers had copied the list from "Church Business," an eight-page advertising leaflet published by the Duplex Co. of Richmond, Va. This concern makes envelopes to contain church-money offerings...
...plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet in diameter and the equivalent of five stories high. Inside will be airtight chambers to contain compressed air, like the treatment tank that Dr. Cunningham has had operating in Kansas City for eight years...
...only two "Guggenheim" playbooks to appear thus far contain 50 games each, plus specialties and "postgraduate" suggestions. The difference in price is due to two other differences...
...good English. I like your publication because it tends to improve my English and increase my vocabulary, but I have no desire to increase it with such words as amanuensis. Sensible men would prefer stenographer or secretary I would not be surprised should an early issue of your publication contain a revision of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, using such unusual words as amanuensis instead of the two-syllable words Lincoln used...
...have heard wonder expressed," says the writer, "that the Herald-Crimson does not contain more items of college news, but it is fair to say that the 'Fact and Rumor' column is somewhat deficient in that respect. But who is to blame for this state of things...