Word: puree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to baseball, the offspring of cricket and rounders, and football, the offspring of soccer and rugby, basketball can boast a pure American ancestry. Characteristically American, it has been prolific with its regulations. In 1891 the game started out with one rule: no more than one step could be taken with ball in hand. In 1892 basketball had 13 rules. Last year...
Having exceeded a billion dollars in 1936 for the first time since 1929, the volume of new financing dwindled away to a paltry trickle late in 1937 when two big issues met disaster in the same week. One of these (some $44,000,000 in Pure Oil stock) had to be impounded when the public refused to buy and the other ($48,-000,000 in Bethlehem Steel debentures) could be sold only at a loss of about $1,725,000 to the underwriters (TiME, Oct. 18). Since then by conservative estimate $150,000,000 in new financing has been held...
...Governor White last week to do something that to other Depression-ridden Governors sounded like pure quixotry. Thanks to plentiful Federal grants for public works and a 2% sales tax inherited from his budget-balancing predecessor, Sennett ("Mike") Conners, Governor White boasts a $5,000.000 surplus in his State treasury. All homesteads valued at less than $2,500 are currently exempt from State taxes. In his opening message to the legislature last week, Governor White expressed the pious hope that all homesteads be exempted, not only from the four-mill State tax but from the 15 to 7O-mill taxes...
Greeks last week painted a wheezing steam locomotive pure white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some...
...Pure Vitamin B was isolated from rice polishings by Robert R. Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1935, and later synthesized by Williams...