Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concurrently the pound sterling was quoted at $4.83⅞, the lowest figure since Britain returned to the gold standard. This represents a fall of 3/16 of a cent from the previous week, and was supposed to be due to heavy British purchases of grain and cotton. U. S. bankers_ calculated that the exchange is now well below the point which calls for an export of gold from London to New York. It is expected that Britannia will draw upon credits of $100,000,000 and $200,000,000 respectively, at her disposal with J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Federal...
...that the world was created by God out of void and a howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith...
...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...
Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography, to allow him to prosecute with greater speed and efficiency his metallurgical investigations, including the corrosion of iron and steel, the influence of casting conditions on the physical properties of iron and steel, and grain size of pure metals...
...Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and South Carolina drought conditions last week were literally burning up the crops, transforming fields into veritable grain furnaces, forcing the closing of schools, resulting in depletion in hydroelectric power, and even impelling inhabitants of parched towns to send their laundry into damper regions...