Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your readers a true reflection of a cross-section of how most of the service men of the World War really feel toward the one man who prevented the Hoover Revolution-who makes it possible, today, for you to operate without having a brick or two thrown through your plate-glass windows by hungry and desperate men-who has removed the galling harness of the "noble experiment" from the body politic of an exasperated people -whose keen vision and unbending determination to extricate the men, women, and children of the country from the mire of disintegration and disillusionment, has made...
...until 1813 did the increasing number of graduates make it necessary for Harvard to adopt a single format and make up an engraved plate from which the diplomas could...
...which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer, and it has been placed in a handsome plate-glass case, and is on display in the office of Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of detectives here in Charlotte. As soon as we finish our exhaustive investigation, we plan to give this to the Charlotte Mint Museum. This plaster cast of the skull measures 24 inches around the base...
...this is a mystery to be solved by a detective, and this is why I secured permission from the Session of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church to again exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, and we propose to sift the earth in an endeavor to locate a silver plate which was thought to have been worn in Ney's head, and also a bullet that was supposed to have been in the calf of his leg. I have associated with me Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of detectives, who is today one of the outstanding men in his profession...
...high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower. After 20 min. the twister was lifted back into its mother cloud, drenching the ground with water as it rose...