Word: filed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day the storm-signals were hoisted and speedily changed to hurricane warnings. The barometer was around 29.25, falling fast. The sky was yellowish. Pelicans stood motionless on keys in ridiculous single file, ogled each other. It grew black...
...held very jealously by officials and employes of the company-by Publisher Curtis, Son-in-law E. W. Bok, Editor George Lorimer, and a few others. They dislike making a financial statement of their affairs. But to be considered at all on the Manhattan Stock Exchange a concern must file such statements at definite intervals. With this general custom Curtis Publishing has now complied. There are 900,000 shares of no par common stock and 182,707 of 1% preferred* which officials consider the equivalent of $30,000,000 capitalization. But last year the total net income...
Mules Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...
...Passed two bills, one making it illegal to buy Federal offices and the other requiring all future officeholders to file affidavits that they have not paid or promised anyone any "consideration" for his influence in procuring their jobs?bills to do away with the sale of postoffice jobs in the South by local politicians. (Bills went to the Senate...
Music. All psychiatrists who attended the 82nd convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Manhattan last week knew that music which "soothes the savage beast," is also a sedative to the insane. Perhaps it is memory echoing up through a file of sea-rocked protoplasm. Certainly music, as well as rhythmic, beating surf, is calming...