Word: coppering
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...famous son of T. R., tanned almost copper-brown by many years of hunting expeditions in Africa, flashed his well-known grin when questioned about possible candidates in 1936. "Oh, it's much too early to talk about men or personalities. What we have to do new is what the line has to do in a football game. We have to act as interference and clear away the opposition before we start to talk about who is going to carry the ball...
...Institute was established eleven years ago by the late Colonel William Boyce Thompson, copper tycoon, yachtsman, good friend of Roosevelt I. A Red Cross mission to Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died...
...Revere Copper 6 Brass...
...Copper King and King. In a position to profit handsomely from devaluation, and known to have conferred with the young King last week, was Belgium's No. i financier, "Copper King" Emile Francqui...
...mere enumeration of the different minerals but feebly describes their outstanding quality," said Professor Charles Palache, curator of the Museum, "Of the nine cuprates (oxide of copper), one is probably the finest specimen of this mineral ever found anywhere...