Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muddy battlefield," and make their dispatches understandable to "the milkman in Omaha." They do not do all of these things all the time, but in 50 years of shooting for those mixed objectives, they have made the U.P. the world's second-largest and most enterprising wire-news merchant, and the shirtsleeve college for thousands of U.S. newsmen. For a profile of hardfisted, bustling U.P. on its golden anniversary, see PRESS, The First Half-Century...
...than art. compelled the reader to believe that he too has been one of the hungry Mediterranean aborigines on the harsh hillsides where tourists never go. As a commuter between continents, Rimanelli chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here...
...Peabody Education Fund (established by Massachusetts-born Millionaire Merchant George Peabody) helped set up state departments of education in the South, opened schools to train teachers, was partly responsible for the Southern Education Board, which sparked a national crusade to improve and finance Southern schools. The Rockefeller Foundation, partly following the Peabody lead, plunged into medical research, virtually eliminated hookworm from the South, wrestled with diseases all over the world. Andrew Carnegie's money sprinkled public libraries across the nation, set up pensions for college teachers and, by supporting the famed Flexner report on U.S. and Canadian medical schools...
...Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted the luminous portrait of aging, crusty Painter Gilbert Stuart, and by Charles Willson Peale, who did the study of phlegmatic-looking John Lowell of the Boston Lowells, member of the Continental Congress...
...anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...