Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
Egypt's habitable land is chiefly a cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them so that a series of "green wedges" would penetrate almost to the centre of the city...
During litigation over the late eccentric Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green's $49,000,000 estate, on which approximately $6,000,000 inheritance tax is claimed by New York, Massachusetts, Texas and Florida, testimony was enterec by Housekeeper Ernestina Holcing, who said Colonel Green liked vaudeville billiards, Bromo-Seltzers, ergo, must be a New Yorker...
This is photosynthesis, the manner in which green plants create organic food substance from carbon dioxide and water, in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll. Chlorophyll, which does not take part in the transformation, is nevertheless the catalyst or activating force which makes it possible. All animals, including man, get their sustenance directly or indirectly from the energy stored by green plants. Thus if it were not for the chemical reaction summarized in the above equation, no life on earth could exist...