Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume Modern Herbal* It is compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer. It may bother U. S. Medicine as it bothers English Medicine...
...value of a business civilization is being reconsidered by business-men themselves; for convictions as well as fortunes were shattered by the crash of the market. The extraordinary success of such a book as "Mexico," by Stuart Chase, which sets out deliberately to compare two civilizations, to the disparagement of our won, is an illustration of a new liberality of outlook...
...reader." Cigarmakers long ago found they could work better if their minds were occupied by having one of their number read aloud to them, the workers making up by pro rata contributions the cigars the reader would have made. Sam Gompers used to read from Dickens, Thackeray, John Stuart Mill, and for a time from Karl Marx, though he got over that after he founded...
From Miss Elizabeth Frances Sybil Stuart of Bath, England, direct descendant of William Penn, the last remnant of the Penn family's holdings in Pennsylvania was bought by Henry Steinman Snyder, onetime vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. In purchasing Green Pond, near Farmersville, Pa., Mr. Snyder discovered that 3.69-acres of the pond were still owned by the Penns, traced ownership to Miss Stuart, had a copy of the original deed sent...
Some Speakers have put up a good fight, have actually been dragged scuffling and kicking to the exalted Chair. But Captain Fitzroy is of the blood royal, proud of his bastard descent from a Stuart King. When Sir George and Mr. Thorne made as though to lay hands on him, Speaker Fitzroy waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent...