Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest gives him, he would not have to wait long to fit little D. & H. into New York Central's big system, if that is his intention. The fact that Central owes some $80,000,000 to banks and the R. F. C. did not seem to bother him at all last week...
...charge of the equipment to be used in the next expedition of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is arranging the details of the installation of the recording outfit, which has one feature different from the usual broadcasting station. The amplification has been stepped up so that the speaker need not bother to speak directly into the microphone...
...that Washington is teeming with "inside stuff" which the Press misses and he, as an able citizen, should have. But the Washington scene as it strikes his untrained eye in headlines leaves him dizzy and confused. To straighten out his perspective and give him the facts he does not bother to hunt out for himself in the daily Press is the prime purpose of the Washington letter writer...
...them write, and 'Walk slow'; "Surely let them get by with 'If that wasn't so-' "Let us write a nice list of mistakes they can use, "And publish a broadside 'gainst those who enthuse "About writing correctly; we simply can't bother. "But for all unmistakable errors-well, rather! "We'll cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition we'll leave...
...territory would be lulled into inactivity. Unfortunately such a method of enforcement would work only with almost complete disarmament the world over, when it would be scarcely more necessary than a police squad in Paradise. The first necessity it to attain our international Paradise, after which we can bother about not losing it. Milton to the contrary, we cannot storm it with petards...