Word: crescents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...command to build was issued by the I.C.C. at the request of the Oregon Public Service Commission and over the protest of the Union Pacific. The new line would connect Crane, Ore., on the Oregon Short Line (subsidiary of Union Pacific) with Crescent Lake, Ore., on the Southern Pacific. Its proponents declare that it will open up a potentially rich region in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, while its railroad opponents see the new line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well...
...lute had its heyday from the 14th to the 17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which...
Pennsylvania. Broadway Limited (and two similar trains), New York & Chicago, 20 hr.-$9.60. The American, New York & St. Louis, 24 hr.-$4.60. Congressional Limited, New York & Washington 4⅔ hr. - $1. Southern. Crescent Limited, New York & New Orleans, 36 hr.-$5. Illinois Central. Panama Limited, Chicago & New Orleans, 21 hr.-$5. Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard...
...Ensign Clarence E. Coffin Jr., U. S. N., went the congratulatory letter from President Hoover, the Crescent Cup, the Army Ordnance Trophy (a .30-calibre rifle), the National Rifle Association medal. He had scored...
...notice was taken of Dr. Hu's criticism of living Chinese statesmen. For example, he had recalled in Crescent Moon that President Chiang Kaishek, after conquering all China, has not yet kept his promise to give Chinese citizens a Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the Shanghai Committee concentrated on the fact that erudite Hu Shih had pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored...