Word: ploughing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Expert Emmett Dunn; William Edward Lunt who helped Woodrow Wilson revise the map of Europe; English Teacher William Reitzel (Wright) who wrote Progress of a Plough boy and Man Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent...
...Boats. Up & down the broad Hudson River between Albany and Manhattan big white steamers plough by day and plough by night. Just a year ago Hudson River Night Line, famed as all night lines are in many a locker room tale, ploughed right into receivership. Last week Hudson River Day Line (no corporate kin) ploughed into receivership, too. As receiver, courts appointed Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott, the Line's president. Great-grandson of Commodore Abraham Van Santvoord whose "safety barges" were the talk of the river 125 years ago, Receiver Olcott said the company had been unable to obtain...
...furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when her husband was away. Tyler's wife tried hard to be his better half, but it was rock-like Uncle Lafe who kept his hand to the plough. And to such good purpose that when Uncle Lafe died Tyler had learnt his lesson. The years of stormy peace quieted into real peace at last: Tyler dropped Minnie, took up with his wife, was glad to be a farmer...
...years of 1914-18 and presents them in crisp, classic profile. Madeline of the white skin, Sebastien of the shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien, on harvest-leave, admires her too. But when a man admires a woman, he no longer wants her. This...
...Middletown, Md., while hoeing his garden. William H. Keller unearthed an eight-inch dud shell, probably fired in the battle of South Mountain, 1862. Twenty-five years ago William H. Keller's brother John was killed when his plough struck a similar shell...