Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...
...brown jug is so minute that one drop of water makes it run over...
...drummer & bugler, he instituted boxing classes, taught them for 13 years. Twenty years ago he opened his poolroom near the university campus and began to lecture all his patrons on the satisfactions of his favorite sport. Undergraduates whose only thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found themselves being wheedled into the belief that boxing was a pastime fit for gentlemen and sportsmen. By 1922 Johnny La Rowe was assistant to the boxing coach. Before he became head coach in 1925, he also helped defray the expenses of the team. Last year, somewhat unwillingly, Coach...
...brick house, sold it to Elmira. It was enough to scare the horses, but it had two lines of hose and only one weakness. The cams on the pumps wore down, refused to deliver the pressure. Firemen fixed that by pouring molasses over the cams. For years a jug of molasses was regular equipment on the old "La France...
When the Peabody Museum received a large shipment of broken pottery from Panama, students were employed to sort out the pieces, and to assemble them. As a result of this jug-saw puzzle work, the museum today is the possessor of a very fine collection of several hundred complete specimens of pottery...