Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, the river's rising waters took their toll. By week's end the flood had claimed 20 lives, routed 25,000 people from their homes and swamped 7,300,000 acres of rich farm land. At least 10% of this year's cotton crop and some of the soybean harvest were threatened. Upriver, as waters receded and mopping up began, farmers around West Alton, Mo., found nearly 10,000 acres of crops covered with silt and debris. But for the most part, the upper Mississippi was secure...
Currently 90 per cent of Harvard's funds are restricted, and these restrictions in most cases never expire. One Thomas Cotton gave the University $156.13 in 1727, and specified that the yield on this mass of capital be used to help support Harvard's President. To this day, President Bok receives a sum of something over six dollars from this account annually...
...possibly be, whenever the summer warmth magically changed, into this special sort of rain. Oh; and if the sun shone down just this way, not sparkling in that fertile vernal brightness, but muted, and almost invisible. The sun singing this gentle and soft gray song, like drumsticks covered with cotton, or felt; beating very softly on a loosened skin...
...hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor man can't afford to look wrinkled," observes Lauren. "A rich...
However the deck was codified, the materials and designs were not. Sheet silver cards appeared in Augsburg at the turn of the 17th century, made for Orthodox Jews whose religious laws forbade them to touch pasteboard decks at Passover. Silk and cotton or plaited straw were inlaid into the cards to reproduce gay theatrical costumes in their original fabric, like the 17th century Pulcinello opposite. The superb min-chiate (or tarot) cards done in the 15th century by Bonifacio Bembo for Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, are so elaborate in their detailed painting, embossment and gilding that they could seldom...