Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sugar trade. The producers of sugar have held large amounts of raw sugar in hopes of high prices, while merchants and refiners have held back in expectation of a drop in prices. The cold weather has perceptibly decreased the normal consumption of sugar in the form of cold drinks, ice-cream and similar products. As a result, merchants have not been forced to buy sugar. The price of Cuban raws has declined in the past month from 4½? to 3¾?, a new low price for the year. Meanwhile, estimates of the Cuban crop have gradually risen from...
...Society's work while Professor Palmer was president, was connected with Mr. Jones, the bell-ringer, who performed his duties without missing a single day. Many attempts were made by students to thwart him, but he managed to supply an extra clapper, or to break out the ice in the bell, or do whatever else was necessary. When the bell became cracked, he asked the University to sell it to him and it was given to him as a token of his services. He kept it in his house for some years, until the Memorial Society obtained it from...
...known many famed farmers, but there has probably been only one man who made himself famed by farming. He died last week. He was born on a farm - in Wisconsin, 1846. He fought in the Civil War, and then, stepping westward, he crossed the Missouri River on the ice. On the far side was Kansas. There he got a job at $12 a month, as a farmhand. Four years later he had a farm of his own. There he stayed for twelve years, making things grow. Then he undertook to edit a livestock journal, and the publicity which followed gradually...
...lost again with his plane-The Seattle. The three other planes were waiting ahead of him, 400 miles west, at Dutch Harbor (Alaska), while high winds and repairs delayed their chief at Chignik (Alaska). Before Major Martin left, he found it necessary to scrape 400 pounds of ice off his plane and thaw out his gasoline pump. The promise of calmer weather proved deceptive, and with reports of 100-mile-an-hour gales in the North Pacific, the second disappearance of the Seattle was sad, but not unexpected news. The natives reported that " the weather is worse than has been...
Professor Morize went on to deplore the enormous expenditures of money on building and equipment by institutions, and what he called "the incongruous mixing of courses in your schools and colleges whereby, economics, ice cream making, millinery, with a little dash of French literature, all thrown together, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree...