Word: os
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...YOUNG MAY MOON-Martha Os-tenso?Dodd, Mead...
...prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market...
...tank is the gift of J. H. Rand Jr. 'OS, of the Remington-Rand Corporation and was built at a cost of $135,000. It is the first in the country which will be able to give both high and low pressures, for which purpose each compartment is equipped with two doors. The apparatus was constipueted at Akron Ohio, according to plans drawn up by A. J. Van Woert of the Harvard Engineering School...
...city's original name was fantastically Losantiville-L for Licking; os, the Latin word for "mouth"; anti, the Greek word for "against"; and ville, the French word for "city...
...Guthrie supplied a capital story by inviting Red Indians into his church (St. Mark's-in-the-Bomverie) and having them dance an aboriginal fandango before the uncurtained altar. Os-Ke-Non-Ton, the Running Deer, took the lectern in feathered headdress and hailed the elements in his native tongue. The organ beat a tom-tom. Incense burned. Dr. Guthrie explained: "If you think you can treat religion like a bug and put it under a microscope, you are wrong. Religion can be found alive only in experience...