Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excited as the youngest of his partners?a youth of 27 named John Fletcher Caskey who referred reverentially to the senior partner as "the judge." Only eight short years ago he came to the Yale Law School right out of Cassville in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. The corn, said New Havenites, was growing rapidly out of his hair. It was therefore with some astonishment that his law mates observed him standing No. 1 in his class at the end of his first year and at the end of his course. That such a man, still bashful, should this year...
...everyone who entered, searching for pistols. In a parking space nearby a sergeant of artillery elegantly picked his teeth while black-eyed Indian children gazed, owl solemn, at the battery of cannon under his charge. Inside the stadium 50,000 people bought hot frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock-coated, silk-hatted, and a brave detachment of Generals in navy blue, black and gold braid...
...home of corn and many...
...their own food. . . . Let's talk about the essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn loose your enforcement forces against...
Commercial Solvents Corp. (Uses corn as its basic raw material; produces cattle feed as a by-product): $3,667,402 as against...