Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish moss, which grows in long gray festoons on Southern trees, has no roots and subsists entirely on what it gets from the air. Yet its ashes contain large amounts of sodium, iron, silicon, sulphur, chlorine. Whence these elements? Chlorine, sodium, sulphur may be carried high in the air by ocean spray, and come down in rain. The presence of the iron and silicon is a puzzle.-Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Dr. Ruth Buchanan, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...that youthful, grand, and awful Widner; that sprawling, showy presence whose mere thought has oft inspired a nightmare in the midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come, these leser rumors, to confirm the growing strife of mind that sets on to rebellion 'gainst the whole regime of change. For alas! the habits of three hundred years are not with ease to be cast off, like cobweb fancies...
After these many years, McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, ordered estimates to be prepared on the cost of erecting 160 miles of eight-foot wire fence. The idea has the simplicity of genius...
...wish to apologize for this intrusion," wrote Daniel Sullivan, Superintendent of the Washington police. "It is regretted that such entry was made," wrote McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. "Permit me to assure you of my concurrence in the expressions of regret that this unfortunate incident should have occurred," wrote Secretary of State Hughes. Thus did Uncle Sam address the Hungarian Legation at Washington-in reply to a protest from Count Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister-because an unwary prohibition agent committed a "violation of the domicile" of Andor de Hertelendy, Attaché of the Hungarion Legion. Nothing of an incriminating...
Five gentlemen from the U. S. Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, visited Ottawa, Ont. They went under the leadership of McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. They conferred for four days with representatives of the William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canadian) Cabinet. They brought a number of proposals for the better enforcement of prohibition along the Canadian border. They discussed and departed, leaving their proposals to be acted on by the Mackenzie King Cabinet...