Word: flints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of ice. Spittle will freeze before reaching the ground. . . . Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops it, sparks fly as if from flint. . . . Even rum would freeze in my traveling flask. Only pure alcohol withstood the cold...
VICTOR W. FLINT Sales Manager Dakota Breeders Hatchery Fargo...
...from their strongholds upon fields of grain and pastures for their cattle, sheep, and swine. They knew how to weave, and probably made their clothing from the wool of their flocks. It is easy to surmise that traders occasionally crossed the plain to the fortress, carrying commodities such as flint and salt, and sometimes rarer things--amber from the distant Baltic, seashells from the Mediterranean, and perhaps, later on, little trinkets of Hungarian copper...
...comes Professor Hughes work,--an exhausting analysis of the origins and development of Imagism, and a group of essays on the original Imagists: H. D., Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint, John Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and Amy Lowell. The book is a combination of history and criticism, therefore, but it is intended to be chiefly the former, as the author states in his preface...
...Father of Imagism," according to the author is T. E. Hulme, an aesthetic philosopher to whose immediate influence in pre-War days on Ezra Pound and F. S. Flint may be traced the beginnings of the movement. With Hulme as a starting-point, Professor Hughes comes down the line of chronological development, quoting freely as he advances...