Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world-something like a camel's hair street sweeper-chunky, grey-haired Raoul Dufy has been standing on a stepladder in an abandoned garage outside Paris for many months, while Jacques Maroger, technical adviser to the Louvre, stood below stirring basins full of pigment, water, alcohol and nut oil with an egg beater...
...Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first one on nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values doubled on Nob Hill and all real estate boomed for several years as the city spread from Telegraph Hill to Twin Peaks with cable...
...This is admittedly a tough nut to crack. If judges have . . . political or economic predilections . . . they are scrupulously suppressed. . .. Judges are moralists and good fellows. They like to see people get a square deal. For example, any railroad company which has not had its tax assessment lowered since the Depression . . . may have its tax bill cut down by this court [Great Northern Ry. v. North Dakota]. This is the type of legislative tyranny which is clearly a violation of due process. . . . We shall give back any money exacted as taxes . . . for the benefit of farmers . . . but we shall have nothing...
...having then but his one office in Manhattan, he merged his agency with H. K. McCann Co., giving the new firm seven U. S. and three European offices, adding to the impressive list of Erickson accounts such majors as the Standard Oil group, California Packing, Zonite, Beech-Nut...
...Another feature event will be the dive, with Crimson ace Russell Greenhood facing Robert Helme of the Pennsylvania school. Diver Helme has been defeated only once this year and will be a hard nut for the Harvard man to crack...