Word: suiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rush is on in a thousand old mining locations across the country, including parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The richest-and most crowded-site is the Mother Lode, a network of streams cutting through the High Sierra in Northern California. There at General John Suiter's mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region...
...fifth reunion gave doubles evidence to the notion that yesterday's revolutionaries have beaten their awards into scalpels and traded their red books for writ books. These is attendance were primarily lawyers and law students, with a smattering of doctors, academics, and other professionals, and one unemployed moot-suiter...
...callous. Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, a shrewd and graceful comedy, shows an ambitious lawyer husband telephoning orders to his shaking wife, who has just nearly been mugged, about packing his suitcase: "Have you got a pencil? I want my tan cowhide two-suiter, not the one from Mark Cross, the new one from T. Anthony. Then I'll need two suits-the gray Glen-plaid Dacron-and-worsted from Brooks, and the oxford-gray basket-weave polyester-worsted from Press. Then six ties, use your own judgment, keeping the suit in mind...