Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...
Crew A. C. M. 4.--Bow, T. B. Smith; H. T. Fisher, Walcott, Corn, Pease, Kennard, Keyes, stroke, Hoagland...
...stoop is used in the summer months as a living room and dining room" Miss Eustis explained, "where wool, peppers, onions, and corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater...
...English gentlemen of the road feed off the fat of the land: they have arrived at a state of well being almost as ideal as that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more...
...staff or from the mission societies or the "Y" in the city. The attendance has varied this year from fifty to one hundred. The boys really like these meetings and are glad for a chat after the last song. Occassionally the committee gets generous and serves chestnuts of pop-corn after the service...