Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could put in. The oilfields he obtained this way soon brought Sinclair Consolidated's holdings up to $380,000,000. At the same time, Sinclair learned how to handle governments...
Amsterdam is the city of drab workmen who cut and polish brightest diamonds, the home of landlubbing watermen who pole barges along slow canals, the habitat of buxom and sensible stenographers who pedal to work each morning upon thousands of bicycles. Amsterdam, in short, is the last place where one would expect to hear-during the decent forenoon hours, and from a stately mansion-a sequence of revolver shots...
...moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked English, French, American jumpers, lined up and broke before...
Novae, or new stars, are always happening along. They are new only from man's point of view, having existed long years before attaining the brightness which makes them visible through a telescope. But no other new star has behaved like Nova Pictoris. It may be that a terrific local explosion has occurred in part of the nebula making this area suddenly brilliant with a luminosity of its own, giving it the appearance of another star. Perhaps some dark invisible star has caromed into the gaseous globe, setting up a fiery fever at the place of injury...
...18th Century, when Yankee traders were enterprising and sporting, men wagered guineas along New Bedford and Newburyport waterfronts about fulfillment of time-delivery contracts at Calcutta of clipper-ship cargoes. Last week dark-skinned, poly-tongued Manhattan Coffee Exchange brokers-Greek, Christian, Jew alike-bet furiously on West Indian weather. Could Munson Liner Southern Cross get her 50,000 bags of Rio coffee a-dock at Hoboken before the last trading hour of March? The 50,000 bags were bought and sold. If a hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them...