Word: caveat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with old John D. it was different; he was out to develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand...
...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...
...through her boxes quickly and she was free to leave. Most of the other passengers from the Majestic still sat about, perched on trunks or, wearily, on baggage carts, in the salt-smelling cavern of the pier. She moved away, accompanied by a handsome woman of 45, whose maternal caveat alone discouraged the imminent addresses of a young man in a Panama, who had been staring for fifteen minutes with a sort of scholarly zeal, as if, he seemed to say, her face reminded him of someone. As she passed through the ticket lines he turned again, pointed his finger...
...either this world court or none; that we would be under no obligation to submit to the court any dispute we desired to keep from it; that the court has no serious connection with the League of Nations; and that we would make reservations expressly entering a caveat against any association with the league...
...Holy Roman Empire, not an Empire, Holy nor yet Roman. Diminishing returns, the Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe, and a bad negro. Aeolus had a breath. Sober, steadfast, and demure is the non sans droit o Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in of Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in musty covered tomes. Hoi Polloi...