Word: even
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rare though .400 is even in "lively" ball days, the highest season's average was made years before even the introduction of the cork centres-.438 by Batsman Duffey of the Boston Nationals in 1894. Other high season averages...
...itself as by destruction of crops to stamp the insect out of Florida. Thousands of trees have been cut down. Fruit has been destroyed. In infested areas, no new crops can be planted. No fruits can be exported from any part of Florida without the most rigid inspection. Even motorists, driving through the infested districts, are stopped at county borders while busy officials squirt insecticide over cars, coats, baggage. Even personal luggage is opened and the contents liberally squirted. To a protesting motorist, one official remarked: "Well, lady, we have $4,000,000 to spend...
Extraordinary is this figure, even more extraordinary is Commercial National's ability to contract for such rental after only six months of business life. The bank was founded at the beginning of the present year-a year notable not for the appearance of new banks but for the disappearance (via merger) of long-established banking institutions. Since April 12, 1926, when Chase National absorbed Mechanics & Metals National, there have been 50 bank mergers in New York. In 33 of these mergers the smaller bank has completely lost its identity. Furthermore, new mergers are constantly expected, with the banking trend...
...with 30,000 G. M. dealers there was no need for mailorder distribution of General Motors products. Asked whether General Motors was planning a car of the type described, the reply was that General Motors had so many experimental projects, each productive of many rumors, that it could not even dignify with a denial every report that reached its ears...
...similar man-made objects which for a little while are the superlatives of their kind. With the liner Bremen, world's third longest, just starting on her maiden voyage (see page 21) came last week the announcement that United States Lines, Inc., was planning two new liners longer even than the 938 foot Bremen. They will each be approximately 950 feet long, said Joseph Sheedy, who is operating U. S. Lines, Inc., for Paul Chapman. Each will accommodate 4,000 passengers...