Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this marble there are hollows perhaps two inches deep...
...downed the duty on egg plant (3? to 1½? per lb.), green peppers (3? to 2½? per lb.), crude feldspar ($1 to 50? per ton), turned shoes (20% to 10%), window glass (25%). He left unchanged the tariff on (among other things), lumber, cement, pens, Spanish moss, pineapples, snap beans, cucumbers, okra, fresh tomatoes and lima beans...
Immediate cause of the receivership was a petition of T. J. Moss Tie Co. which said that the road was "completely insolvent," could not pay a tie bill of $49,651.95. There was no question of mismanagement in the petition. Federal Judge Charles B. Davis heard the petition in St. Louis, appointed as receivers Walter S. Franklin of St. Louis, Wabash's newly-elected president,* and Assistant General Counsel Frank Nicodemus Jr. of New York...
...heard. What they said was clearly audible but their faces flickered vaguely on the screen; it was hard to tell which was which and what they were doing. Later, a Central American parrot was somewhat more successfully televised, screeching hoarsely at mention of Prohibition. Theatre-owner B. B. Moss made a speech explaining that the purpose of the performance was "to show the progress in television rather than the finished article." Observers wondered whether television's progress, as shown, was not such as to make its often heralded arrival seem more distant than ever. The apparatus used...
...relative merits of Port Nelson v. Fort Churchill. Engineer Palmer, who built the bridge in India over the River Sone, is now 69. He is generally recognized as a world authority on harbors and waterways. He went to Hudson Bay, poked about among the jack-pine and reindeer moss of the two trading posts and finally decided on Fort Churchill. Heavy tides and spring freshets make the 15-mile channel from the Nelson River to Hudson Bay too difficult to keep open...