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...rely on ready-made material for your sermons. Anybody can open a can and warm up the contents. Have a blank book always handy to jot down thoughts...
...latitudes, longitudes, and elevations in 175 cities and towns. No matter how worth-while the project from the point of view of Pure Science, that kind of employment is wasteful of the abilities of educated men, provides no opportunities for progress and a secure future, and adds not a jot to the wealth of the community...
...truth" about the Old Lady's dictatorship. Hastily the bank had called a third and final conference, which merely gave the spunky treasurer the opportunity to challenge the bank's authority to pass on security issues. Blandly the Old Lady admitted that she did not have a jot of authority. But: unless Glasgow capitulated on the bank's terms, no London banker would underwrite the bonds and they would be forever barred from the London Stock Exchange...
...West, the marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor, deviltry and brawling caste loyalty which Author Edmonds' boatmen had between covers...
...Lord, completed in 1849 for the private pleasure and instruction of his children. Its publication, after 85 years, was regarded by United Feature Syndicate as one of the big news scoops of the era. When, after two weeks, the 14,000-word story is completely published, the last jot of Charles Dickens' work will have been made public...