Word: elie
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From the time it was first founded, the U.S. has been the world's foremost innovator. Eli Whitney's cotton gin turned the South into a profitable agricultural kingdom that could rival the industrial North. Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats...
...attic, Rhoads has assembled and put on view priceless originals: the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803; the Homestead Act of 1862, which opened the West; the Monroe Doctrine (actually two widely spaced references in President James Monroe's 1823 annual message); the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; patents for Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794) and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876); the 1919 Treaty...
...ELI CENTER BALLROOM, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY...
...Eli-etttes laid goose eggs on the Crimson at key spots. Denise Thal got friend at number one by the gifted Sue Graham, 6-0, 6-1. Sally Roberts at the second spot wiped the eggs off her face from a 6-0 defeat in the first set and her her opponent, Floridian Karen Feldman, 3-2 in the second set before narrowly losing the sixth game and three thereafter for a 3-6 defeat...
Harvard was down 3-1 when Jim Levy put the Crimson back into the contest with a resounding 6-1, 6-2 victory over Eli captain Acosta...