Word: hogsheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...
Armour is conducting its own research in the hope of increasing the supply, said Mote. If the complex structure of the ACTH molecule can be determined, he hopes to be able to stop making it in minute quantities from hogs' heads, and start to synthesize it by the hogshead. Until then, the millions of sarthritics and the countless sufferers from gout and a dozen other diseases must live in hope...
...Watertown, N.Y. historian entered the controversy with a disquieting story of what had happened to Zeb Pike's body. Legend had it that when Pike was killed in the capture of York (now Toronto) by his forces, his body was shipped back to Sackets Harbor in a hogshead of whiskey.* In 1909, the cemetery in which he was buried was moved to another section of the town. Of 130 corpses, only four-not including Zeb Pike's-were positively identified. The historian recalled that among the bodies moved was one apparently submerged in alcohol in a metal casket...
...brag and strut; he polished the wit and dug out the humor in this cleverest of swaggerers. Best of all, he suggested that self-dramatizing streak in Cyrano that gives a wry pleasure to his frustrations - and that gives the play its gill of psychology as well as its hogshead of sentiment...
Enclosed are photographs showing a prefabricated sentry house which we are manufacturing, which allows a 360° visibility by the use of a Lumarith dome, and the base of it is a tobacco hogshead. The total cost of this unit is less than $25 and shelters the sentries from rain, snow and wind, and yet does not detract from their efficiency. It is made so that it can be shipped in sections and assembled in approximately 20 minutes and if the need calls for moving, can be quickly unhooked, taken down and moved to another location...