Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breed Cattleman Congdon slightly exaggerates the antiquity of his be loved breed. True, there have been black, hornless cattle in northeastern Scotland from time immemorial-but, says James R. Barclay, Secretary of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, the beginning of the "breed improvement . . . which was to have its out come in the present-day Aberdeen-Angus breed of cattle . . . was about one hundred and thirty years ago, to be exact, in the year...
...first part of this prediction had now come true. Following the death of his son-in-law, David R. Coker, whose large affairs in South Carolina needed overseeing, kindly, seam-faced Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper's resignation was at last announced. Instantly a Big Business chorus arose led by President George H. Davis of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, seeking to head off the Hopkins appointment. Franklin Roosevelt, like his most trusted friend, laughed away questions about it and Christmas continued to come, with two Cabinet stockings instead of one for the White House Santa Claus...
...with wholesalers did not strike anyone as particularly strange. Mr. Patman's bill to tax chain stores out of existence ($50 to $1,000 per store times the number of stores in a chain, times the number of States in which the chain operates) is due to come up in the next Congress, and chain store merchants have been worried for months...
...this will not happen here. Harvard is not a currently fashionable resort, but a growing community. Its inhabitants are not sightseers; they have come to stay. If the University has difficulty in filling the Francis Lee Higginson chair, it will not be for want of applicants. With his deep, booming voice, his profound erudition and inspired criticism, Professor Lowes has added many citizens to this community...
...colleague and a friend. It has been given to few to probe the secrets of the poet's heart as it has been given to him. We can give him only our thanks, admiration, and praise, but I believe that his greatest and most lasting tribute will come from those poets whose works he has illuminated for us all--Chaucer, Coleridge, and Keats...