merchantable
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He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.
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Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.
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Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922.
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A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses.
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Jacob Ford, Jr., on the Whippany river, where "good merchantable powder," was in course of manufacture,—some of which had probably already been tested at Trenton, Princeton and elsewhere,—was also among the attractions.
From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Julia Keese Colles
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