Word: potted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair target for the critic of Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted it with an advertisement published in Boston by the G. O. P. The advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides and placed the whole nation in the silk-stocking class." Said Nominee Smith: "Now, just draw on your imagination for a moment and see if you can in your mind's eye picture a man at $17.30 a week...
Bessie Cudlip facilitated his courtship of Miss Fosdick by dying (on the same day as Miss Spragg), and leaving him her money. For she, a hearty wench from the "Pot and Pie," had picked up Mr. Winnery, Sr., in Brighton, honeymooned with him in Paris, that glorified Brighton, and lavished money since his death on church-sociables and Sunday School picnics...
With the ascendancy of the Medicis, Nicolo lost his job, was accused of plotting against the new rulers, banished to his poverty-stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses...
Temperature, tinfoil. Into the merging pot were thrown two companies making devices to control temperature (Robert Shaw Thermostat Co., Fulton Sylphon Co.). two companies producing tinfoil (U. S. Foil Co., Beechnut Foil Co.). Reynolds Metal Co. emerged...
...late date. There are, quite naturally, many courses that do not lend themselves gracefully to any such radical change as this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that is in such courses that are pot, by their very nature, kept to rigid lines of study. I should like to ascertain the trend of campus opinion, in the hope that, if the plan should meet with enough backing a petition could be arranged for and, God being willing, a short reading period...