Word: abou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Abou ben Adhem...
When it comes right down to grievances because of the abuse of given names in this country, I feel, like Abou ben Adhem, all those with my name should head the list. The Georges, the Johns and the Fannys really don't know what it means to blush...
Most packers' fiscal years end abou Nov. 1. In fiscal 1935 the four big packers made some $32,000,000. In order to reap this profit, they had to sell no less than $1,850,000,000 worth of meat, butter, eggs, fertilizer, byproducts. The earnings amounted to only 1.7? per $1 of sale, but packers have long since grown accustomed to getting along on this modest ratio. The year was marked by a shortage of livestock. During 1935 only 29,266,000 little pigs went to market, compared to 44,398,000 in 1934. Total meat supply...
...this Reader many owe their knowledge of the fact that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...