Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year beginning Aug. 1, the Board will dispose of 650,000 bales of cotton, one-half of the amount it bought from the 1930 crop at an average price of 16.3? a lb. It will be the first real sale made by the Government since it began trying to peg cotton prices. Since cotton sold last week at 6? a lb., and since it costs approximately $3.50 per year to store and insure a bale of cotton, the total Federal loss on this transaction will be between...
...Night With Barrie is really a night with Laurette Taylor, who is currently appearing in two Barrie plays, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, across the street from the theatre in which she made her first success 20 years ago as Peg o' My Heart...
...league A squash Dunster climbed a peg by decisively whitewashing the Leverett racqueteers 4 to 0, while Lowell and Winthrop won by substantial margins over Kirkland and Adams House respectively...
Actor Rathbone, whose clerical garb does not prevent him from wearing his usual monstrously cut peg trousers, attends a house party, asks the guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...
...fair test of time. Best seller: A Message to Garcia. This "literary trifle," as he called it, Hubbard wrote one night after dinner when Bert II had remarked that Rowan was the real hero of the Spanish-American war.† The Sage of East Aurora made this incident the peg for a passionate sermon on loyalty, duty, alertness. Short & snappy, it is still the gogetters' ABC, one of the first bits of advertising copy at which the Sage later became so successful. Translated into 45 languages and dialects, "more copies of it have been distributed than any piece...