Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House looked stock traders for some word of hope as the market slumped. The President's word: "The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis. ... A temporary drop in grain prices in sympathy with stock exchange prices usually happens...
Lobbyist Grundy, 67, grey-haired, white-mustached, thick through the shoulders, said he had raised $750,000 for the Coolidge campaign in 1924, had helped to raise "almost a million" for the Hoover campaign of 1928. This year he had spent $20,000 out of his own pocket in seeing that Pennsylvania industries got back, in higher tariff rates, these political contributions...
There are two specimens of the rare Schomburgk's deer, one a world record. The home of this deer is still a mystery. It is supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...
...books are mostly filled with records, listing sales and accounts in general, of this company, which did much business in importation, especially of liquors, for the Chinese of the city of Canton. These books have been rotting because of the ravages of white ants, and those of worms. Some of the leaves are filled with the tiny holes made by the destroyers. The one of the books in the worst condition has about half of its cover eaten away, while the remainder is perforated with the holes left by the little beasts. The pages and sheets of the volume...
Team B borrowed several team A members for its scrimmage. Its lineup was: l.e., Harding, Ogden; l.t., Upton, Faxon; l.g., Ginman, Newhart, Lewis; c., Cunningham, Richards; r.g. Myerson, Talbot; r.t., Davis, Upton; r.e., Burns; q.b., Wetmore; l.h.b., Putnam, Gilligan, Batchelder; r.h.b., White, Mason; Record; f.b., Potter, White...