Word: harkens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself, ruminates many a U. S. man-in-the-street, dazzled by world-wide Fords, by General Motors balance sheets, by Chrysler skyscrapers. But such envious persons might well harken to the story of David D. Buick. Mr. Buick was in on the automobile ground floor. He was working on his Buick before the old Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. But no millionaire became Mr. Buick. No break got he. He died in Detroit last week, obscure, impoverished. And when he went to his work, he walked...
...four hundred and fifty million subjects of the King Emperor, George V, were expected to harken last week as the note of Empire boomed fortissimo at London...
...lungs of congested cities in parks and playgrounds, his activity in the husbanding and preservation of the National resources, his patient, persistent, consistent advocacy of the reform of the Civil Service, his earnest labor in the cause of international peace, have prompted his lay sermons and made men harken...