Word: jamestowne
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...prosaic observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerful, angry American, name of Robert Jackson, of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...GUSTAVUS A. BENTLEY Jamestown...
...charge: back in 1942, Kidder, Peabody & Co. had $963,000 of Jamestown, Franklin & Clearfield Railroad Co. bonds they hoped to sell for $502.50 each, but the open market price for the bonds was only $497.50. To protect the firm against a trifling underwriting loss on the issue, loyal Kidder, Peabody employes jumped into the market, bid up the price of J.F.& C. bonds to $502.50. Punishment for this deal: an SEC order suspending Kidder, Peabody & Co. from the National Association of Security Dealers, Inc. for ten days, effective...
...Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters, the first covering the years between Columbus' first voyage and the founding of Jamestown, and the last, the American Revolution...
...Oxford English Dictionary, was knighted for his stupendous scholarly labor. Before the last volume of the OED was out, he settled in Chicago for a ten-year stay, to grapple with U.S. lingo. His mountainous task was to find out what Americans had done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago's lanky Chaucerian Professor James Root Hulbert. Many U.S. experts lent their advice...