Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stallion, Slave. From Ibn Saud Husein, King of the Hejaz, to "Salubria," horse farm of Rear...
...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
...Leopold story is old. It has been told. It isn't news any more. Don't worry. There'll be a new murder next week. SHIEK SLAYS SLAVE TOT. Throw a jolt into...
Pondering this outcome, students of U. S. race problems reflected that 95% of all U. S. Negroes are descended from slave stock, some of which has been in the U. S. even longer than genuine Mayflower stock. They also reflected that, whereas U. S. Negroes form 14% of Gary's population, U. S. whites form 36%, foreign born whites form 50%. Thus a large majority of Winfield Eschelman & friends were-if representative of Gary's population-descended 14% from Slavs, 10% from Poles, 4% from Hungarians, 3% from Austrians, 3% from Croats, 3% from Italians, 2% from Germans...
Proud of his master, King Al fonso, the Ambassador waxed indignant in answering the charges that his monarch had become the "slave of a dictator [Primo de Rivera]." Wrote...