Word: ests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Patrick H. Joyce, burly, forthright president of Chicago Great Western, bought for his road a 20% inter est in Kansas City Southern. He bought it cheap from the hard-pressed Brothers Van Sweringen. The block of 104,500 shares, said President Joyce at the time, would give Great Western "part of the trackage we need for a direct route from the Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad...
...est fou,' they whispered, and ordered more and more champagne...
...scheduled) he skipped back & forth between English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs...
...President of France one day last week was a little woman in a simple summer frock. Severely a Paris gendarme told her to move on. Obediently she moved. "Imbecile!" hissed a plain clothes agent of the Sûreté Generale at the startled gendarme. "C'est Madame Straus...
...various methods of learning the principle parts of the verb "ennuyer." One can choose Mr. Kelsey as an instructor, and be bored with attempts to liven the classes with French geography and American social problems; one can choose Mr. Harvey and be bored with an interminable succession of "n'est-ce pas?'s." Or one can choose one of the other instructors with less developed technique, and take his chances on the method of boredom. It doesn't matter much in the end; one goes to as many classes as the Dean requires, and somehow...