Word: garnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural good spirits, the Vagabond has been feeling of late that the ruby of the sunset was only a garnet and the emerald of the sea was but green glass. He has suffered from the "weariness the fever, and the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing...
Near Wilmot is the garnet mine of Harvardman Norman Davenport, whence Henry Ford and General Electric Co. get the garnet used in fine abrasion, glass-polishing...
However, the Harvard Bureau does not limit its aid to cases of general destitution in Cambridge. Not all students realize that this service is also at their disposal. Such legal difficulties as rent contracts, buying and selling, and automobile accidents can most conveniently be handled by applying to Garnet Hall adjacent to the Square. A Bureau such as this is another indication of the place of the University in modern life as compared to a past conception of the University as an academic retreat from life...
...that city through Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank, an oldtime Nashville friend. He is also interested in Alligator Co., St. Louis. He has been identified with many a Southern hotel, including the Kentucky in Louisville, the Andrew Jackson in Nashville, and Lookout Mountain Hotel, Chattanooga, where Garnet Carter conceived Tom Thumb Golf (TIME, July 14). Banks, garages and textiles likewise are included in his interests. So great is his faith in Banking-on-the-South that in 1928 he sponsored Shares in the South, Inc., an investment trust to specialize in Southern securities with the provision that...
...Garnet Carter has part interest in patent rights on the use of cottonseed hulls or other "comminuted flocculent vegetable material" as putting greens (TIME, July 14; Aug. n). His patents on hollow-log and other hazards are still pending. A great rival-Miniature Golf Courses of America Inc.-had sprung up to compete with his Tom Thumb Golf. Wisely they compromised on the market: to Miniature Golf, the indoor courses; to Tom Thumb the open spaces. Latest Department of Commerce figures for this fast-growing U. S. business put the total investment at $325,000,000 for 30,000 courses...