Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...whose wholesale savageries, rapes and extortions are a byword throughout the Orient, rich, scowling Chang Tsung-chang evoked awed, fearful respect when he and his suite put up at Beppu. That a shot would sooner or later be fired in or from Chang's sumptuous apartments might almost have been called a foregone conclusion...
Shout Drug, Inc.! at the casual U. S. passerby and he will stare blankly, show no recognition. Yet Drug, Inc. products are familiar to almost every literate U. S. citizen. What do babies cry for but Fletcher's Castoria? What have physicians endorsed for 50 years but Phillips Milk of Magnesia? Of what should one accept no substitute but insist on the genuine but Bayer's Aspirin? What works while you sleep but Cascarets? These and many other household products belong to the Drug, Inc. family. So do 525 Liggett stores. So do 10,000 Rexall stores, which...
Porter Plan. Eastern roads are looking forward to the fall announcement of a rail consolidation plan prepared by Claude R. Porter of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Details of this plan have not been made public, but almost any definite program would be preferable to the present uncertainty as to the I. C. C.'s position on almost every rail project...
Writers of advertising copy have handled almost every subject from toothpicks to war loans. Last week, however, there appeared in Chicago papers a unique campaign. Signed by the Chicago Employers' Association, it was a protest against the bombing of industrial establishments, particularly printing shops, by racketeers. Copy punch was provided by the offer of a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of persons bombing or damaging property of any printing concern that belonged to the Association and $1,000 reward for conviction of persons assaulting workers of print shops where strikes are in progress. The sales...