Word: crossroads
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...crop has not yet begun. Men and boys old enough to be out of school have plenty of time to "go to the store" or into town, and not much to do when they get there. Even in the southern counties, winds blow chill across the fields. At a crossroad store ("GROCERIES, HARDWARE & GEN'L MERCHANDISE"), the stove is hot, the air laden with the smells of harness leather, coal oil, turpentine, of bodies white and black, of cheese, sardines, tobacco juice, tobacco smoke, Garrett's snuff. A man can always find company at the store, sitting...
...foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits and have a harbor!" At its vital crossroad, inland Atlanta actually...
...Latin word pronounced lee-mace, meaning crossroad, limit, boundary, passage. Limes Germanicus, built in the First Century A.D. from the Rhine to the Danube, was a series of forts to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...inventory losses but slows public buying in anticipation of still lower prices. Result is a general stagnation which continues until stocks are so depleted that extensive buying must be renewed, forcing prices to turn upward. Last week, Standard Statistics saw no sign of U. S. business reaching this fundamental crossroad in the immediate future. Neither did Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index to 136 last week. But a 25? drop brought the listed price of steel scrap...
Said Senator Minton to the press: "He gave Indiana the best administration Indiana ever had. . . . He has acquaintances all over the United States. There isn't a crossroad that doesn't have someone that knows him. He's a great campaigner, too. There isn't a better one in the country. His views are substantially the views of the New Deal...