Word: nurseryman
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...three years, is a large, shaggy, moody 39-year-old. Born in Union City, N. J., but taken to Lorraine, he learned French and German first, was 16 before he mastered English in Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School. Last December he helped get his brother Emile, French nurseryman, out of a Nazi jail after Emile had insulted Adolf Hitler on French soil, been yanked across the border by a German tobacconist and nabbed by frontier police. Another Jolas brother is Jacques, until last year dean of University of Louisville's School of Music...
...were able last summer at Chicago's Century of Progress to operate a tiny fan requiring two or three watts by shooting a beam of short radio waves toward a parabolic reflector which focused on a small antenna. Scientists doubted last week that Mr. Gregory, who is a nurseryman as well as an inventor, could have done any better, and their doubts were magnified by a report that his hidden receiver worked by means of selenium cells...
...other 35 winners included stenographers, doctors, spinsters, a Finnish lumberjack, a Swiss nurseryman, an aerial photographer, a chauffeur, a welder, two dentists, two locomotive firemen...
...Philadelphia, James Arati, 71, Nurseryman, hoeing shrubs, stirred up a swarm of hornets. One bit him on the lip. He died of shock...
...campaign was rough, personal. Hague called Burkitt "a contemptible scoundrel and carpet-bagger." The question of whether Mrs. Burkitt worked or not became a political issue. The Fusionist candidates-a nurseryman, a plumbing contractor, a motor salesman, an attorney, a roofing contractor-were obscured by the battle of Burkitt v. Hague...