Word: cottons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month, is a new translation of the "Essays of Montaigne" by the publication of Mr. Ive's new work, in four volumes, the fruit of years of labor and effort, is the first new American translation of the famous French essayist to be published in 255 years. Although Charles Cotton's translation of 1670 has been changed greatly in its subsequent editions, it has still remained unsatisfactory for modern use. With the publication of Mr. Ives' new work, there will at last be adequate and up-to-date interpretation of both the style and content of Montaigne...
...whisper seems to show a lack of any sense of humor, since the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendment would certainly de prive him of a seat in the House of Representatives and give him an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil on a Georgia cotton plantation...
Many railroads depend for their prosperity on the crops grown in their particular area. Thus there are "wheat" railroads, "cotton" railroads, "corn" railroads. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is unique in depending for its destinies on the potato...
...Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
...aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling orange, lemon, grapefruit trees...