Word: plant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months ago, when his royal parasiteness the Prince of Wales visited the plant, Ford issued strict orders against spitting that day and so cuspidors and sawdust were not sold, and all receptacles for holding turning and chips were covered with white canvas...
...Ohio Society of New York planned a golf tournament on Long Island, decided it would be appropriate to the occasion to plant four buckeye chestnut trees on the links. So they asked Congressman Martin L. Davey of Ohio to get them. Congressman Davey ought to know, because he is Davey the tree surgeon. Mr. Davey replied that he had seen three or four buckeye trees in his life, did not know of any in Ohio, the Buckeye State. There was one, he said, on the Mall in Washington...
...trips a collapsible stage, which is nothing more than a specially constructed body on a Ford chassis, has been designed by Mr. Cheney. A second truck is equipped with a lighting plant, so that the theatre is a completely self-sustaining unit and may be set up anywhere, where there is sufficient space and an audience...
...about education, my dear Usbek, I think this last discovery would have suggested them to my mind. Education is something to be acquired. It is not a product--but a process--a process of continuous and complete development which has no end. It is like the budding of a plant. The motive force must come from within. It is a mistake to say, as they are saying here at Dravrah that they are educating men. They are not, and never will. All they can do here is to offer facilities for use. Education is always self-imposed...
...Houghtons. It started by Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton being received in audience by Queen Mary. The U. S. Ambassador also attended the usual Pilgrims' dinner, where he did not make the usual speech. Said he: "Anglo-American friendship is not a tender plant. . . . I sometimes wonder if it were not well that it be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory...