Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This accident at landing was one which would not ordinarily occur and which can easily be prevented in the future by using rock-wool instead of excelsior...
...chemicals which Dr. Gericke adds to his water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another...
Married. Mary McCormic, 37, opera singer, onetime wife of the late Prince Serge Mdivani; and Chicago Lawyer Homer V. Johannsen, 35; in Kansas City, Mo. Few hours later, clad in blue satin lounging pajamas, she revealed the news at an Excelsior Springs, Mo. hotel, gaily introduced "Mr. McCormic," her fourth, who had proposed to her only that morning...
Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs...
Farmer's statement is as follows: "In retaliation for a certain practical joke played on me by G. M. Davis, I sent in his name the so-called joke bomb consisting of candy, and alarm clock, and excelsior to Governor Curley, hoping to embarrass Davis with unwanted publicity...