Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Wroxeter, a shattered Roman tablet related, when pieced together, that the Roman ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints...
...business man was President J. L. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co. of Chicago. He, who has advertised cheese to his profit, wrote to his stockholders glorying in the success of a new sandwich dressing ("Kay"), a malted milk and a "candy malted milk tablet," put up in rolls and styled "K.M.'s," "which in my opinion is going to be one of the best candy sellers in the country." Of cheeses he said: "The new Ancre cheese, a combination of cream cheese and Roquefort, also is a long-keeping article, whereas heretofore...
Southern notables assembled last week at Fletcher, N. C., to sing a song and unveil a tablet to the song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first...
...Houghton '86, American Ambassador to England, is expected to attend the unveiling ceremony at Stratford. The Lionel Hall tablet will be disclosed during Commencement week...
...over it into the still-smoking battlefields, seen as from a high hill in geographically exact detail. Within the wall, which is divided into panels by inscribed monuments, stand leading representatives of the Allied Nations, grouped on shallow steps, with each nation's name engraved on a smooth tablet...