Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Florida still belonged to Spain, General Jackson led his troops against them in the First Seminole War. Three years later, U. S. purchase of Florida sent a flood of white squatters over the Seminoles' lands. The Federal Government helped shunt the Indians south to swamps and sand dunes. Whites stole their cattle and Negroes, kept up a continuous outcry to have them driven out altogether. In 1832 the Government persuaded some of the Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty promising mass emigration to Arkansas within three years...
...Oldest Newspaper") restrained itself. Withholding epithets and stock denials, the Chronicle's Editor Thomas J. Hamilton promised to investigate the Caldwell charges, to report accurately, fearlessly. With the author's father, Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell of nearby Wrens, Ga. as guide, two Chronicle newshawks scoured the bleak "sand hill" section between Wrens and Keysville-setting for Tobacco Road. True to promise, the Chronicle front-paged their findings in five straightforward reports which, in any Northern publication, might well have drawn the hot fire of Southern boosters. Dutifully the investigators described the worst cases they found...
Most gypsum, however, is calcined by dehydrating with heat. With 75% of its moisture removed, gypsum becomes plaster of Paris.* And mixed with sand, hair, wood fibre, lime or other materials, calcined gypsum is just plain plaster...
...Great Hotel Murder (Fox). Month ago in Under Pressure Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen were a pair of truculent sand hogs, snarling savagely at each other while digging a vehicular tunnel. This time they are rival detectives, investigating the death of a banker in a hotel and thereby putting all its guests under suspicion of murder...
...runs the Greek legend. Lately Italian archeologists, probing the sand dunes near the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the yellow Tiber, turned up a marble statue of Perseus, a curly-haired youth clutching his dreadful trophy. The statue bore some resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles, was apparently carved in the Graeco-Roman period...