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...motor was whirled. Once it spat and died, again it sputtered and coughed, finally it roared action. A man picked up the butt of von Huenefeld's discarded cigar for a souvenir...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America was the particular butt of his displeasure, because, with its 15,536 stores in the U. S. and Canada, it is the largest chain organization in the world. Last week it published the profits of its fiscal (business) year, which ended Feb. 29. Those profits were...
...Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than is Dr. Stresemann in his; he works tirelessly, commands imperiously and never gives interviews; 4) finally President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank is a granite wall against which some finance ministers lean for support and others butt in vain. Vigorous scathing Dr. Schacht never deviates from his wise, constructive councils of economy...
...ancient with an inventive mind discovered by cutting off the butt end of a feather on a bevel that he had a tube shaped like a reed pen. It also served for writing; it was a quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into...
...little Marine went over the top and bumped his butt on a barrel...