Word: cf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean (cf. Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc. II) that "the rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath" that it had almost choked the speaker...
...East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
...pallid visage-on trial for his life. Soon after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black...
...encourage students to own automobiles, as we feel that it is too great a drain on their resources. Nor do we teach automobile repairing or driving. A number of our students have driven their own cars during the summer or driven for their parents, and I have never heard cf any who had any serious difficulty in driving successfully. I have been glad to give my testimony from time to time against proposed laws restricting deaf drivers from using the public roads when they can show ability to handle an automobile skilfully. I am glad to say that...
Shortly after the closing of Congress, Representatives William R. Green of Iowa, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued a statement foreseeing tax reduction ? surtax reduction in particular. Last week, Secretary cf the Treasury Mellon and UnderSecretary Winston spoke before the Bankers Club of Richmond further outlining their program...