Word: pone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch was in Oakland, Calif, running 44 of his stores...
Spit V Image. But Hummon and Harris were undismayed. They sent a reassuring message to the Atlanta "interests" who had backed Old Gene and to the country "wool hat" boys, who had elected him. The message: Hummon was just like his pappy. He chewed corn pone, had Old Gene's cowlick, and stood foursquare for white supremacy and the white primary...
From the point of view of veterans who have been gone for two or three years, the divisional and general exams pone a real mental hazard. Within each House there are an estimated 100 men who will take these tests lacking any tutorial preparation, and with brief notes and infrequent conferences as the only means of resurrecting what went on three or four years ago. Departments of the College have shown willingness to supply reading lists, a sample of the staff of one House shows an enthusiasm to go ahead with the plan. Certainly the Masters could do no better...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...
Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...