Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
With these 26 years of bartending for Harvard, Murphy has developed a theory on the drinking patterns of the different classes. "The old crowd drinks scotch, bourbon and gin. They won't drink a blend," Murphy said, adding that he probably shouldn't have opened the blended whisky; by the end of the lunch, only six members of the class of 1926 party had requested a blended whiskey drink...
...younger classes drink gin, scotch, vodka and some bourbon," Murphy said. While Harvard celebrators drink mostly scotch and bourbon, their counterparts at Wellesley prefer gin, and at Boston University drink a lot of blended whiskey, he added...
...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...
...reading she was writing, at a peculiar four-foot desk, at which she stood to work, like a painter at an easel. "When I see pen and ink," she wrote to Lady Robert Cecil, "I can't help taking to it, as some people do to gin." This was her exercise and her liberation...