Word: salte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That conversation, the intellectual salt and pepper of thought, has of late become stereotyped, is a charge often repeated. Business and bridge are the talk of the town, even that section which has had the advantage of a college training. In the current Harper's, Albert Nock, one-time editor of the uncompromising and now deceased Freeman, brings this plaint again into prominence. The stock market has over cast music. Work and Whitehead flourish in place of politics as topics of conversation...
...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...
...scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother of Salt, a sand-strewn salt-hill several hundred feet high twelve miles from Pueblo Grande, a cave 140 feet deep and 50 wide sparkled brilliantly under the explorers' flashlights. They found stone hammers with the wooden handles preserved, bits of sandals, creosote-brush torches, even thousands of corncobs remaining from...
...Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition. After meeting her, he hurried from California to Manhattan and got a job on the American Magazine. In 1915 he found time to write The Amateur, followed shortly by Salt (of young men). After fighting abroad, he wrote Brass (of marriage) and Bread (of business women), both of them big sellers, big cinemas. "This writer's life," says his motherly wife, "has been what, I suppose, all would-be writers like to dream that life might be." It is "full...
Interest, it is a platitude to remark, is to life what salt is to eggs. So, although I do not as a rule attend afternoon lectures, particularly in the spring, I intend today to hear Professor McDougal at Emerson D lecture on that interesting subject in Psychology...