Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anent the list of "J. B's" in which the name of John Brashares appears (TiME...
...Viscount Lascelles his satisfaction that the latter must await his father's death to become an earl. From this unspoken taunt springs the dislike between them which is common knowledge. Therefore, last week, British clubmen cackled loudly at a mot which Lord Lascelles was said to have made anent the London slumming exploits of Edward of Wales: "One would think he got near enough to the dirt at Melton Mowbray [the hunting centre where Edward has so often fallen off his horse into...
...Steel is now remodeling its Homestead plant to manufacture beams of this type. Anent this, Judge Gary said, in the Iron Trade Review: "We are building a mill which will be prepared to manufacture a wide flange beam." Bethlehem President Grace countered: "Bethlehem has an exclusive license under numerous patents which have several years to run, and which cover the process for rolling the so-called broad-flanged sections as a product." It may be that the Judge, always perspicacious, is looking far years ahead. Yet the ingredients of a fight already exist...
...Arthur Clement, smokeshop philosopher. His services to undergraduates, by no means confined to the realm of nicotine, have included such strictly extra-curricular acts as bailing erring wanderers from jail at early hours of the morning and keeping life in the indigent by timely extension of credit. His remarks anent discussed gastronomic situation at the University may therfore be regarded as words of rare wisd m prepart will, the fruit of long experience with students and their ways...
Discerning observers did not jump at a conclusion without considering the following facts anent the plebiscite...