Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park belongs to the President's mother, but he owns a nearby farm...
...Aside from those who buy it as a long-term investment or, currently, as a hedge against inflation, main pepper purchasers are the grinders, who maintain "spice mills" all over the U. S. Packers and canners take the balance of the 18,000 tons used annually by the U. S. Not to be confused with black or white pepper is red pepper, cayenne or paprika, which comes from a different plant, has small volume, little speculative value, is not traded on pepper exchanges...
...walnut or fumed oak. In the 1920s automobiles displaced furniture as "Public Want No. 2" (No. 1-necessities of food and clothing) and contributed to the decline in furniture sales which began in 1927 after an all-time peak of $800,000,000 the preceding year. Other main cause was the downward curve of the building cycle, to which the furniture business is intimately geared. Thus the biggest problem of Depression-etherized furniture makers was how to cut costs through standardization and better planning, while their biggest hope was a revival of home furnishing along with home building...
...fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten age he acquired his "abiding penchant for actresses" when Actress Rachel patted him on the head. In clerical college he smarted, did little studying, because the main honors went automatically to sons of the nobility. Smarting ever after, as an old man he let loose against the college a blast of irony that all but put it out of existence, having first advertised it as the place where he picked up his ideas on "social iniquity and inequality...
...harmonious group, though essential for the well balanced life of most of us, carries with it a constant threat, a constant insidious pressure to conform to the very bottom of our souls. How to resist this pressure without migration to a lonely mountain top is one of the main problems of the modern man who would be free...