Word: potful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With further reference to my letter of Dec. 29 and the article which you ran in your Magazine under the title "Associated Press v. Coffee-Pot" [TIME...
Counsel advises me that your footnote explaining the meaning of, as you say, "coffee-pot." to wit: "low in . . . prestige," is libelous per se. Reference to an unabridged dictionary for the words "prestige" and "low" leads me to feel that if the facts are not as stated by counsel to me, they should...
Last week the trade buzzed with talk that a big manufacturer of chocolate coatings had skimmed the froth from the boiling cocoa pot. But the usual candidates for the role of "titanic forces" are "British interests"-an old bogey of the U. S. cocoa market. Because they are better informed than anyone else on the important West African crop, British traders have been known to take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing...
...pictures, "Woman Carrying a Child," and "Children Playing Rummel-Pot," were both in pen and ink on white paper. The first was 4 3-4 by 2 7-8 and in a small, simply carved, antique, gold frame, while the second was 6 7-8 by 4 5-8 and was also inclosed in an antique, gold frame, with carved design...
...British vessel is carrying arms or munitions to Spain, it is for the British Navy, not for any foreign authority, to take appropriate action." In Berlin, high officials said that this was Adolf Hitler's naval doctrine too, and German warships in Spanish waters continued seizing and pot-shooting at Red ships, claiming they did this "in reprisal" for the Reds' continued refusal to release the cargo and Fascist passenger of the liberated Palos. In Berlin it was also said in official quarters that Der Führer had sent General Wilhelm Faupel, the "German envoy...