Word: noah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year George Washington made peace with George III a young Hartford, Conn.† lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold...
...Tiberias, Palestine, a boy born during a cloudburst which killed 35 was christened Noah...
...Noah...
...aflame. What happens to a beautiful Russian girl who sacrifices everything to serve her country in the only way she knew how and the cross-roads she comes to when love crosses her path forms the plot of the picture. The cast includes Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward, Arnold, Noah Beery, John Miljan, Vince Barnett and Rollo Lloyd...
When William Bishop Warner and Lionel J. Noah became masters of American Woolen Co. in 1930, the company had lost $10,000,000 in three years and stockholders had actually thought of giving up. Dividends on common stock had ceased in 1924. Wool prices had fallen from $1.55 in 1925 to 65? in 1930. A thin-lipped Yankee named Andrew Pierce had done all he could to reorganize the company after a fatal post-War spending and production boom had piled up huge unsalable inventories. The year he resigned the deficit was the third biggest in the company...