Word: corne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...left Memphis by air at 5 o'clock of an evening and had not arrived at expectant Nashville. When he landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred...
...Many layers of ashes, of ceremonial fires were found; and in the floors of these chambers were graves. With the skeletons were found pottery vessels (for water) and baskets (for food) on the journey to the hereafter. The stature of adults was not much over five feet. Grains of corn, corncobs, squash seeds and beans indicated that the people had practiced dry farming at a time when the region was not as arid as it now is. There were also bones of deer, mountain sheep and rabbits, remains of fibre garments and garments of twisted leather, the inevitable dice, beads...
...Benjamin Eisner, Chairman, Miss Anna Griel; L. R. Bamberger, Miss Suzanne Schoenberger; Hiram Gans, Miss Ethelyn Holzman; Robert Markson, Miss Marie Hays; Nelson Miller, Miss Carol Miller; N. P. Lyons, Miss Anita Lyons; L. S. Pilcher, Miss Eleanor Bogart; E. R. Stabler, Miss Dorothy Brooks; J. J. Corn, Miss Dorothy Lathrop; C. A. Hicks, Miss Mildred Whinery; J. L. Brown, Miss Louise Hanson; W. W. Flexner, Miss Marjorie Morse...
From the wide open spaces of Minnesota, where grow corn and wheat and financial reforms, comes a new proposal for peace upon earth with the dollar sign as the herald angel. The spokesman is Senator Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His proposition is to establish control by the Federal Government of all American banking and investment credit in the international field as a means of promoting world peace...
...Houston was leading a force to relieve the fort; but before he could do so it had fallen and its garrison had been massacred. But he met the Mexican Army at San Jacinto, routed it and took Santa Anna prisoner. Before the captive, Houston took a gnawed ear of corn from his pocket, saying: "Sir, do you ever expect to conquer men who fight for freedom, when their General can march four days with one ear of corn for his rations...