Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor McClure happen to have returned to his desk? Where did he get the money? Every one knew that he was a wealthy man when he retired in 1912. But scores of trips to Europe consume money and Mr. McClure's books (My Autobiography, 1914; Obstacles to Peace, 1917) could hardly have brought in the purchase price of even the middle-aged McClure...
...congregation of business men on the relations of capital and labor must do so as an amateur. He has never had any capital and little experience in the matters which he is discussing, and he knows less about his subject than his hearers. Either one of two things will happen: preachers will either return to subjects of philosophy and theology, in which they are professionals, or will have to stop preaching...
...what he is made to appear in the press. ... I know most people think of my father as hard, severe, cold-blooded and harsh, but he is none of those things. He has a marvelous sense of humor and has his tongue in his cheek at many things that happen in Washington. He is a good storyteller. I ought to know, for I've been listening to his stories since I was knee-high to a duck. And he has wit. His opponents have learned that and his friends have enjoyed...
...blocs are equal; and, although it seems likely that the Weimar Coalition will win, the vote is certain to be close and in a close election anything may happen...
...Gentlemen: One of our friends has just told us that a letter in TIME of a recent date says that the word "Airedale," meaning a kind of terrier, is not in Webster. Although we have a copy of TIME every week, we didn't happen to see this letter; but we hope that you will tell your correspondent that "Airedale" is in your copy of Webster, which, of course, is a genunine Webster's New International. G. & C. MERRIAM...