Word: handly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other hand, if the price rises to, say, $3 a bushel in six months' time, the farmer would not collect that extra 25?-a-bushel profit. But farmers are often willing to forgo the opportunity for additional profit in order to guarantee in advance what they consider to be a fair return...
...seems crazy that the league office has decided to wait until after the game to hand out the championship rings, but there is a method to their madness. The contest will not be played on paper, but in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., a mere Sunday's drive from L.A. All four Steeler losses this year (were there really that many?) took place on natural grass, and the Pasadena turf is as real as a Jack Ham tackle. And, lest we forget, this is a new decade. Do I hear the far-off sound of Afghan guerillas...
...York's Empire Buying Service, Owner Jack Brod was importuned by one eager customer to extract his loose, gold-filled tooth on the pot. Brod refused; the man left, but returned a few days later with tooth in hand. Typically, New York Dealer Harry Rodman paid one Maryland dentist $500 for the gold scrap and dust that he had collected with a special vacuum from dental grindings in just two years of practice. Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with...
...other hand, so wide a cast has its advantages. All art has a context in other art, and the advanced painting of the 1880s was no exception. Thus, to take only one example, one's understanding of the motives of the Pont-Aven painters, Paul Gauguin and the artists who gathered around him in Brittany?Emile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Paul S�rusier and others?can only be enriched by seeing how their more traditional contemporaries dealt with the same subjects of Breton life. Brittany pervaded the salons of the 1880s. Its landscape of tight villages, stony shorelines, near primitive Christian...
Clergymen, plainclothes police officers and well-known elementary school teachers will be on hand for the opening of school today at Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School, closed since the stabbing death of a student there a week...