Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whereas there is a real interest in the sport, there fore Be it Resolved: That the University do establish and maintain a bowling alley in or on the buildings near the Yard...
Afore you was dry behind the ears I'd been stirrin apple butter nigh unto forty years. You aint got no call to be initiatin any new fangled sacieties that your elders knowed about fore they ever thought of you. But tain no bad idee at that an' I'm for it. You kin put my name down as a charter member and since you aint goin to charge no nitiatin fee I thenk mebbe one or to other old timers thats done their share of stirrin in these parts 'll come in too. Write...
Thus brought to the fore was the most ominous U. S. railroad situation since government operation during the War. Railroad men generally believe that it is impossible to rearrange the rate schedule on the basis solely of operation costs because these vary strikingly in different territories. And some railroaders assert that the traffic may not be willing to bear a sizable rate rise. In any case, as a whole the U. S. railroads are desperately in need of more net income, although last year, after deduction of $500,000,000 fixed charges it amounted to $164,0130,000, a gain...
Last week the Board of City Trusts at a special meeting voted to rescind the rent reductions, require payment in full of the $200,000 concessions already granted. Be fore they could vote, old Francis Shunk Brown pointedly stalked from the room. Three days later, looking more than ever like a Philadelphia lawyer in a wrinkled black alpaca coat, brown trousers and shoestring tie, Mr. Brown showed up in the City Hall courtroom where the Shapiro committee was sitting. He stormed...
...stand, all of whom had done gallant War-time service. Most pitiable were two photographs of a famished, broken-kneed old black mare which had once seen proud service with the nth Hussars, a bay cavalry gelding with "all his joints gone and very lame in the near-fore and near-hind." They were two survivors of 80,000 British Army horses and mules sold by the British Government to Belgium in 1919, put to work in mines, hitched to produce-wagons and canal-barges. Coming on these pictures most Britons were more convinced than ever that "no damned Froggie...