Word: gourd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commerce, anthropology. He bought 60,000 books, hired 17 assistants. For a time he worked 100 hours, ate only one large meal, read at least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition, unfulfilled at death, was to find a formula for a race of supermen...
...Eighty miles due east is Death Valley, 276 ft. below sea level, lowest, hottest spot in the U. S. Last week Californians celebrated the opening of 17 miles of CCC built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped from Tulainyo was carried through 150 miles of cheers, bands and barbecues, first by Indian runner, then in succession by pony express, prairie schooner, pack burro, 20-mule team wagon, stage coach, locomotive, automobile. After a three-day trip the gourd was emptied from a swooping...
...Belgian Congo the Basenji is highly domesticated, plays with the children, eats with the family, hunts with a gourd full of pebbles tied around his neck so he can be followed in the jungle...
...clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real...