Word: cotton
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...Family Tree. Family was everything to Beckwith. He never wearied of noting that a great-grandfather, Judge Hunter Holmes Southworth, owned vast spreads of rich Delta cotton land in pre-Civil War days. The judge's daughter, Mrs. Susie Southworth Yerger, moved in the highest social circles of the Confederacy, was a close friend of Jefferson Davis' wife Varina...
According to the Sun. Bushy white hair aflare, drooping mustache aquiver, cotton strips wound around his arms to absorb the sweat, he is a little deaf but alert as a lion. He is still planning additions to the hospital and is working on Volume III of The Philosophy of Civilization. A few weeks ago, he announced that he would make no more rest visits to Europe, which his disciples take to mean that Schweitzer wants to die at Lambaréné, where his wife was buried six years...
Technology & Cotton Candy. Fly-ins are the gregarious side of private flying. A fly-in may be a bunch of well-heeled bank managers, admen, lawyers and the like, assembling for a weekend on Blakely Island, the de luxe air marina just off the northwest coast of Washington. It may be an informal handful of farmers and construction men setting down by a lakeside for a Sunday cookout. Or it may be a highly organized annual institution, with hundreds of planes zooming in for an elaborate program of exhibits and special events...
...Tier Air Fair drew 172 private planes and some 2,500 visitors to the Chemung County Airport, despite a bad weather forecast. The atmosphere at Elmira was a pure American blend of up-to-the-minute technology and old-fashioned county fair. Outside were refreshment stands, a chicken barbecue, cotton candy and a sound-truckload of continuous music; inside a large hangar were displays of the latest aeronautical equipment. The door prizes were free glider rides, and there was an afternoon "air parade" of the latest models of private planes. But the most important part was the shop talk...
...year tenure as president, Rose has profoundly improved the intellectual climate of the University of Alabama, and he has infused Alabamans with his own passion for a school that aspires. Rose was born in Meridian, Miss., with little else but aspirations. As a boy he picked cotton in the fields at 500 a day. His father died when he was ten. He drove soft-drink trucks and plowed fields to earn the money to go to Kentucky's Transylvania College, where he majored in philosophy and went on to get a bachelor of divinity degree...