Word: lard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Spitting on their hands, 600 brawny Breton & Norman shipwrights rushed out to the launching ways, took their stations and stood ready to pull the wedges. The stupendous hull (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall) had been anointed with 43 tons of tallow, two-and-one-half tons of lard and more than a ton of soap. The grease alone cost 150,000 francs...
...instructors, most of them young. With Port Royal's opening set for Nov. 1, Dr. Hill and his associates busied themselves last week getting ready to receive such students as might come to them as impecunious medieval youths did to Anselm, to John Duns Scotus, to Abélard in the rural oratory he called Paraclete...
...consequences is a representative of the State of Tennessee. According to the World Almanac, Tennessee is primarily an agricultural state producing lumber, tobacco, cotton, corn and cattle. In 1930 it appears that of the total American production of tobacco 40% was exported, of cotton nearly 45%, of lard about 29%. It is plain, then, that the prosperity of Tennessee is intimately dependent upon a flourishing foreign trade and upon a recovery of world prices...
...Taft, wife of the publishing half-brother of William Howard Taft, gave $125,000 to prevent the split-up. Another $125,000 was given by Mrs. Mary Emery whose father-in-law, Thomas Emery, made one of the first big real estate fortunes in Cincinnati, increased it by manufacturing lard oil and candles...
...Senate this year. Three years ago she divorced Terrell. During this year's campaign Terrell threatened to sue Governor Long for alienating his wife's affections. Mrs. Rose McConnell Long whom the Governor married in 19103 after she had won a baking contest with a lard substitute he was peddling, does not regularly reside with her husband in ihe executive mansion at Baton Rouge or in his elaborate hotel suite in New Orleans. She remains at Shreveport where she says she prefers the schools for the three Long youngsters...