Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been filed in the jam-packed basement. Eventually President Angell persuaded the Prince to return to the chore of meeting 200 or so of New Haven's finest, but not until George Reber Wieland had had his day and I don't believe that more than a dozen in the crowd had the faintest idea who the little man in store clothes was. RICHARD EDES HARRISON...
...When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital of $1,000,000 or so by hundreds, built up half a dozen major U. S. industries including the Aluminum Company of America, Koppers, Gulf Oil Corp. of Pa., McClintic Marshall Corp. (bridges...
...know) who haven't already developed a liking for some form of sport and fewer leave who haven't become adopt at more sports than when they entered. Whether you like sports or not, some form of them is compulsory here, but with almost a dozen sports to pick form, there is no hardship...
Small Animals. As prosperous as any of the 2,500 veterinarians at the convention were those who specialize in "small animals" (dogs, cats). The U. S. has some 2,000 of these specialists, among them two or three dozen women. Their best clients are the nation's 40,000 professional dog breeders and the owners of pets raised in the unnatural conditions of the city.* These veterinarians are up on many of the latest medical wrinkles. At Omaha last week one specialist showed how to deliver a city-bred bitch by Cesarean section, another adroitly gave a blood transfusion...
...than do the principals of most comparable studies of recent years. What takes the curse off their name seems to be less Guggenheim philanthropy (the $7,000,000 Guggenheim Fund for needy artists, writers and scholars, the $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, a dozen others) than a general Guggenheim picturesqueness. When Simon was accused of having bought his Senatorship, he answered blandly: "It is done all over the United States today." Discussing laborers, Sol philosophized: "I believe the wage earner is more extravagant . . . than the millionaire." As a first step in the direction...