Word: references
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These lines, say Botanists Harold Moldenke and his wife Alma, do not refer to lilies, which are rare in the Holy Land. They probably mean the Palestine anemone (Anemone coronaria), which still brightens the field with scarlet and gold...
...such rigid cost-cutting and cautious retrenchment, Avery has developed what Chicagoans laughingly refer to as "the only bank in the world with a store front." He has built up Ward's cash reserves and Government securities to a towering $230 million. Ward's owes no money. Since 1945, unlike other big stores, it has used its own cash to finance credit for its customers (present total: $164 million), pay for its inventories (now $275 million...
...late for news value, I should like through your columns to meet a friend's request by recounting my own recollections and impressions of a once-friend who died a week ago, and of the manner in which his name came to adorn the Harvard Hall of Myth. I refer to J.B. Rinehart, whom I knew well some months before his first name was spelled "Oh." He was a member of my Class of 1900. he was also my table mate; for a year we ate mutton together at Table 6 in Memorial Hall. Among other...
Dwight Eisenhower, Protestant with no denominational affiliation: "You can't explain free government in any other terms than religious. The founding fathers had to refer to the Creator in order to make their revolutionary experiment make sense; it was because 'all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights' that men could dare to be free...
Would it be possible (or would it take just pages?) to include ... a list of the government agencies to which you so glibly refer by initials only? . . . Many a time the full title of the agency under discussion is not included anywhere in the article...