Word: merchantable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...canal and paid its dues in Swiss francs (Nasser has not yet consented to accept either French or British currencies). The ship was chartered by a Hong Kong firm doing business with Red China; nonetheless the flag that fluttered from the stern was the "Red Duster" of the British Merchant Navy...
...outgrowth of a heretical sect founded in France by rich Merchant Peter Waldo in 1176, which moved to the Piedmont Alps and became Protestant early in the Reformation...
...Parkman had disappeared a week before. A man known for his punctuality as well as for his businesslike ways, he had been missed when he did not come home for lunch on the afternoon of November 23. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return, and by Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 28,000 handbills...
...terms of the award, as stipulated in 1722 by Thomas Hollis, a London merchant, are that the candidates be "pious young students devoted to the work of the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ Jesus but who cannot comfortably proceed...
...Oakland surgeon's son, Six began inauspiciously by quitting high school, thereafter became a merchant seaman, bill collector, turned to flying at 21 after Lindbergh's transatlantic flight had fired his imagination. Six started a flying school that failed, spent a year as a part-time copilot for China National Aviation, ended up a delivery hand for the San Francisco Chronicle. Soon tiring of that, Six began selling Beechcrafts on the Pacific Coast, set himself up as an aviation consultant...