Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purchase by his family of control of the Lloyd Triestino Puglia Line, the Maritime Italiana Line and one of the two largest shipyards in Italy. This acquisition makes the Cosulich Line the largest Italian shipping firm, with a fleet of 105 ocean-going vessels, aggregating 460,000 gross tons, operating to and fro between Italy and North America, South America, the Near East, Egypt, India, Japan, and China...
...Gross Blunder...
TIME COMMITTED A GROSS AND UNPARDONABLE BLUNDER IN LINKING WEST VIRGINIA WITH MELLONIZED PENNSYLVANIA IN ITS ARTICLE ON THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONS RECENT RATE DECISION STOP WEST VIRGINIA IS GREATLY AGGRIEVED BY THE COMMISSIONS ARBITRARY UNPRECEDENTED RULING STOP LET TIME SEEK SENATOR NEELEY OR THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD FOR EDIFICATION...
...Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions a year...
...social plane, as one of the most important instruments in the preservation of health, happiness and longevity. The failure of poorly informed or unobservant reporters (if I may be permitted this paradox) to realize these facts, leads them occasionally to still refer to dentists in the press with gross and distorted humor as "tooth carpenters," "tooth yankers," and such. Therefore., this letter of regard for your aptly reported article...