Comstock

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• The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
• Ms. Comstock, who said roughly a third of her customers are Chinese, started making 'skinny' chocolate-chip and pistachio cookies especially for them.
• But unlike the scrappy miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• Images capture famous Nevadans as well as scenes from one of the world's greatest bonanzas: a massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, about 20 miles southeast of Reno. Fore, right!
• Titled Mining on the Comstock, it shows a cluster of industrial buildings and, beneath them, a cutaway view of a multistory mine.
• Comstockery, George Bernard Shaw, I see you smiling. Crystal Syben Haidl: The Morning After--America's Most Underappreciated Anniversaries for Money, Sex and Song
• Comstockery has been given a new lease on life by this Congress. Comstock Act Still On The Books
• The individual in your photo on the far left most certainly has lamellate antennae which Comstock in our 1940 edition on page 41 defines as "the segments that compose the knob are extended on one side into broad plates. What's That Bug?
• The flap is rooted in Virginia City's late 1800s heyday, when the town was at the epicenter of the huge Comstock Lode gold and silver mining rush. Residents of Old Mining Town Want Gold to Stay in Them Thar Hills
• Intercalary - ies: additional or inserted between others; as a vein: plural; added or supplementary longitudinal wing reins: see under specific headings; i.e. anterior, etc.: in Ephemerides, certain longitudinal veins between the 8th (anal) and 9th (1st maxillary) and not branches of either: in Diptera, the anterior intercalary (Loew) = the discoidal, and the posterior intercalary = the cubitus 1 of Comstock: applied to an evanescent sclerite in the embryo between antenna and mandible; also termed premandibular. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology