Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last analysis, the Yankee also is a creature of God." Styles may shift but, it is Miss Repplier's uncontentious contention, culture itself is not transplanted within half a century. Even if it be allowed that seeds of artistry have thriven somewhat in the western world, at least salt has not been strewn on the soil of Europe...
...Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond", so runs the official title of an organization which gave, one evening last week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life?such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
...Outside of the time I spent in class rooms I suppose I worked about five hours a week.' That does not seem an excessive requirement for any freshman in college. This boy is the salt of the earth but not a brilliant student and I do not believe he ever worked more than four or five hours a week throughout the year, and yet his record was perfectly satisfactory. He did, however, keep himself in good condition...
That conversation, the intellectual salt and pepper of thought, has of late become stereotyped, is a charge often repeated. Business and bridge are the talk of the town, even that section which has had the advantage of a college training. In the current Harper's, Albert Nock, one-time editor of the uncompromising and now deceased Freeman, brings this plaint again into prominence. The stock market has over cast music. Work and Whitehead flourish in place of politics as topics of conversation...
...scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother of Salt, a sand-strewn salt-hill several hundred feet high twelve miles from Pueblo Grande, a cave 140 feet deep and 50 wide sparkled brilliantly under the explorers' flashlights. They found stone hammers with the wooden handles preserved, bits of sandals, creosote-brush torches, even thousands of corncobs remaining from...