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24 Jan 2016, 9:01 am
The painter says that while paint is no good for coloring yarn, if Pelle will fetch him some turpentine he happens to need from the general store, he can use the change to buy a packet of dye. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 5:01 am
If a person with common sense visits a physician and is told to drink a quart of turpentine every evening, that person isn’t going to trust anything else that the physician advises. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 5:50 am
The presence of any chemicals was explained by Ahmad, who testified that he stored turpentine and mineral spirits in his garage as part of his flooring business. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 12:22 pm
Most of them are still on the books, such as 16-13-100, "stealing crude turpentine." [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 1:27 pm
Some of my favorites: the archaeologist tracing the history of turpentine from the Middle East to Europe by analysis of Renaissance painting paint fragments; an Abigail Adams quote from a letter to her husband inscribed on the fireplace mantle in the East Room of the White House; details of Pablo Neruda’s life; details of a Congolese form of voodoo practices in Cuba; and, who said “We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities, Yogi Berra or Pogo? [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 8:15 am
Turpentine and lumber camps deep in the fetid swamps and forest vastnesses of Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana commonly worked their convicts until they dropped dead from overwork or disease. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:06 pm
in From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves 133-34 (Mary Turner, ed. 1995)(describing overwork in tobacco, iron, turpentine, coal, woodworking, logging, ditching, and ferries) Charles B. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 3:21 pm
Leonard Pitts's latest column for the Miami Herald profiled EJI's lawsuit against Kilby Prison officials who last year banned Douglas Blackmon’s historical account of how the South instituted a form of de facto slavery by mass arresting black men on nonsense charges and “selling” them to plantations, turpentine farms, and other places of back-breaking labor from the 1880s until the 1940s. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 7:04 pm
You'd expect medical history, and of course it's there, but in Pox: An American History, historian Michael Willrich gives us much more.Race: Some outbreaks began in the African American community, spread by itinerant workers moving between jobs on the railroad or in turpentine camps. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 4:33 am
One fourteen year old girl, who was interviewed lacquering canes in an attic working with both intense heat and the constant smell of turpentine, said “School is the fiercest thing you can come up against. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 3:16 pm
PG&E may have evidence of turpentine in the garage or failure to timely evacuate – right now victims can only speculate how PG&E intends to cast blame at trial. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 6:20 am
Reports conclude that he grabbed the steering wheel, which caused his wife to crash into the woods off Turpentine Road on the Massachusetts Military Reservation. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 5:33 pm
The thought of the law making it even harder to raise money probably makes you feel like you just drank a tall glass of turpentine and will probably keep you up at night thinking of alternatives. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 1:27 pm
When we (well, one of us) were little kids, we watched a TV show called the “Popeye Club. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 10:41 am
It smells like turpentine? [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 7:01 pm
SIU said no.Chemistry note on turpentine: Turpentine is a fluid obtained by the complex distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly various species of pine (Pinus). [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 7:01 pm
SIU said no.Chemistry note on turpentine: Turpentine is a fluid obtained by the complex distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly various species of pine (Pinus). [read post]
16 Jan 2010, 8:09 pm
The native species included the turpentine, the Virgin Island Palms, and cinnamon tree. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 9:00 pm
Then, the next day, in the car, I got closer than ever before -- much closer -- to visualize how we would win my client's case, as if the answer had been there all the time, but somehow shrouded in invisible paint, with our trial workshop having provided me more turpentine to strip away that invisible paint to reveal the answer. [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 11:41 pm
The city argued that MTBE renders water undrinkable by making it smell and taste like turpentine. [read post]
