Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Begin with wine," cried a happy voice, "begin with verse. Do not all feasts begin with wine...
Reynolds Metals has long since outgrown its dependence on the tobacco industry: only about 30% of its business is in that field. Specializing in the art of packaging, it now makes anything from wine caps to book jackets, from ham wrappers to ginger ale labels, from candy box covers to containers for permanent wave pads. Lately Reynolds has added building materials, and it is in that division that the company is presumably about to expand. Chief building product is aluminum foil insulation, which because of its shiny finish minimizes transfer of heat by radiation. Most building insulation simply reduces heat...
...further finds were being made at Lachish which the expedition members, with Sir Charles off attending to other matters, did not feel like withholding. One was a seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
...laid bare the ancient Athenian agora (market place), brought to light a multitude of priceless relics (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Last month, 50 ft. below the site of the Senate, near the Acropolis, he came upon a Mycenaean cemetery which he dated at 1500 B. C. Surrounded by wine jars, remains of food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might prove to be among the most important in a decade. Dr. Shear planned to ship one of the skeletons, protected...
...name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur stops...