Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens of France were reminded that the State presents a superb set of Sevres china to every foreign Legation and Embassy in Paris. Furthermore, when a piece from one of these "diplomatic sets" breaks, the fragments are exchangeable without charge for a new and costly Sevres platter, plate, vase...
...individuals?courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Erie; they have gained a share (with N. Y. C. and B. & O.) in the Lake Erie & Wheeling. They have had the strategic plan of making those railroads into the fourth eastern system. N. Y. C. has helped them...
...Welsh tin plate manufacturers conferred, last week, on problems of growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
...dusky, lustrous eyes of Roman citizens grew large and moist with awe, last week, when a Papal medal as big as a smallish soup plate was borne pompously across the "Eternal City...
Such lashing words must have cut deeper than pain; but suddenly their sting was soothed, as the great, soup-plate-like medal arrived and was placed in the trembly hands of General Umberto Nobile. Immediately his careworn features relaxed, and he seemed to bask at length in Peace...