Word: contains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stocks do not contain the immense quantity of water many of the industrials contain. In fact, our water comes "rom the desert area, while industrials are usually organized by promoters whose hydraulic pumps operate out of the Atlantic Ocean. The bankers, as a rule, do not help us because our activities inter-"ere with their game...
...have a great library here in the building which makes it possible to obtain information on almost any man in the United States. Our files contain the name of every person mentioned in the newspapers for the last twenty-five years. The clippings in which they are mentioned are also filed with the name, and thus we can get the low-down on almost anybody in a very few minutes...
...enough to have to pay an exorbitant price for whiskey that is composed of very little but alcohol, water, and burnt sugar; but when it contains substances that fail very little short of being poisonous the last crushing straw has been added. In New York analyses of "Sam Thompson pure rye whiskey" has revealed that it had in it sufficient diethylphthalate, a denaturant causing nausea, to render the liquor unfit for consumption. This is not merely one isolated case, for I think that most of the cheap so-called blends are not only undrinkable slop but also contain quasi-poisons...
Chase's first request for contributions from his class will contain several points, the most important of which are the following...
Ambitious Jules Remains is working on a scheme as big as Honoré de Balzac's. His slowly growing super-novel, Men of Good Will, is being built to specifications to contain a whole city - 20th Century Paris. Goggling onlookers, seeing the size of the completed foundations, may now have some idea of the extent of the building, but Architect Romains, though he admits his construction will cover a lot of ground, still refuses to post his blueprints or release a front elevation. Before putting down tools for this section he thanks spectators for their patient interest, promises that...