Word: cottone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proved in 1948. But when it became apparent that the condition of many of the ballots in question was going to make it impossible for the Senate to declare a winner, and even the Democrats, who badly wanted their party to gain the seat vacated by Republican hardliner Norris Cotton, began calling for a new election, Durkin refused to change his position. So Wyman was able to portray himself as the champion of letting the electorate make the choice, with Durkin appearing anxious to take the decision away from the people of New Hampshire. And when the inevitable happened...
Purple Prose. The man who made LIFE was a Southerner, born at Redcliffe, the Beech Island, S.C., plantation built by his great-grandfather, onetime South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator James Henry ("Cotton Is King") Hammond. Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed...
...that largely home-taught genius Eli Whitney, when he set up a factory to make muskets. Whitney established the American vernacular: economy, simplicity and flexibility, which, in industrial terms, were translated as quantity, standardization and interchangeability of parts. Watching clumsy workmen fumble the parts of the cotton gin, which he invented, Whitney realized that he had to put his own skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only by long practice and experience." In that single principle, Whitney created...
...which medieval students drank as tea to keep them alert during exams? A pot of basil in a kitchen window is said to discourage flies; fennel, which has a mild licorice taste, also keeps fleas away from dogs ("Plant fennel near to kennel"). Many herbs make subtle dyes for cotton, silk or wool used in hand-weaving and embroidery...
...expected Constantine to spend the hours of 7:30 to 10 p.m. as her dinner companion and to act as her gentleman-escort at social functions. Constantine seems not to have bridled. His father, Peter John, headed an import-export firm dealing in textiles from Manchester and Liverpool, cotton and wheat from Egypt. Peter John was a prodigal spender, and at his death the family finances were in precarious shape. Constantino's elder brothers bankrupted the firm...