Word: contains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive, gouty, giddy visitors a summer season. To entertain the visitors the Saratoga racetrack was built and gambling establishments were opened. To contain a Saratoga season's clothing and finery the huge Saratoga trunk was invented...
...Texas game warden who told him, during a long discussion of crime, chorus girls, Western cinemas and the use of cavalry in modern warfare, that in Prohibition days more game wardens than revenue agents were killed in the line of duty. Unlike So Red the Rose, which contained implicit and explicit criticisms of modern society, the tales in Feliciana are casual and fragmentary, contain only marginal sociological comment. Some times Stark Young seems little more than a leisurely collector of old Southern impressions, exhibiting dissociated bits of conversations, rare historical items, with the polite, after-dinner wit of one displaying...
...Such coins, considered the only sound money by natives on both sides of the Red Sea, are disparagingly said by bankers to "bear no obligation of redemption." Being worth always exactly the value of the metal they contain, Maria Theresa dollars therefore cannot be devalued by any unscrupulous currency jugglers. With a standard content of 28.0668 grams of silver .8333 fine, the Maria Theresa dollar was worth in U. S. money 19? in January 1933 just before Calvin Coolidgc's death, 26? in May after President Roosevelt took the U. S. dollar off gold, and 53? today after...
...same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate. Most of Author Zweig's tales ring true, contain sharp characterizations that make up for his occasional sentimental philosophizing...
...same organ-brain, for example- may contain both growth-inhibiting and growth-promoting factors...