Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business and now I am out of it, and I have seen a good deal of life. I have made "profit" -enough to keep me alive to this age-but what matters to me most now is my friends. You are in business for profit, of course. You doubtless count yourselves lucky get as much advertising as you do for a paper that compared to me in years is a youngster. But do you think you will make any more money will amount to if you lose your friends...
Weight does not count much (the convolutions are more important) in determining the ability of a brain, but in so far as weight may be taken as a guide, Mrs. Gardener by the bequest of her brain placed herself in formidable company...
...Balfour policy was about as follows: Our annual payments to the U. S. plus enough to reimburse us over 20 years for two years installments that we have already paid, should mean that we should be paid about ?40,000,000 a year by our debtors. We cannot count on more than ?10,000,000 a year from German reparations. That leaves ?30,000-000 we want to be paid by France and Italy. Considering capacity to pay, we feel that France should pay ?20,000,000 a year, and Italy ?10,000,000 of that amount...
...Mergentheim in Wurttemburg, Germany, a man of 73, busily at work writing the fifth volume of his memories sank beneath the pale hand of anaemia and last week he died. So passed Count Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf...
...this juncture Marshal Petain returned to the scene to plan the French strategy in conjunction with Marshal Lyauty. The French problem now seems to be rather a race with time than a battle with the Riffs. After Sept. 15 they can no longer count on good weather. It is improbable that they can gain a decisive victory before the winter rain sets in, and then they must wait until April for fair days. This week's successes place them in a strong position for organizing themselves to hold their present territory over the winter. The Morocco-Algerian railway...