Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will fear the Argentine to pieces in the early rounds. The result will lie in Firpo's ability to pick up the pieces. He must allow himself to be pounded to a pulp dispassionately. He must retain enough vitality to explode the dynamite of his right hand in the hole which the champion must leave in his defense before the fight is done. Expert opinion judges him unskilled to do these things...
...George L. Loft (son of George W. Loft, candy man) were sold to W. A. Beaver and Arnold Wood, Jr., respectively, for the low price of $80,000 apiece -a decline of $2,000 from the last sale. Secretary Cox of the Exchange said: "These sales nail the lie that memberships are being offered at $75,000 and less...
...Cuban sugar industry. As Colonel Tarafa himself pointed out, Americans are about equally heavily interested in both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said that the National City, Bank (New York) runs the sugar industry and the Rockefeller-Morgan interests run the railroads. Colonel Tarafa's interests lie with the latter. Cuban industry, much more honest than Cuban politics, is beginning to rise in protest against Colonel Tarafa's steamroller tactics in putting his bill through...
Serious harm to the larger oil companies through this sharp drop in prices is most unlikely. As far as the Standard Oil companies are concerned, their chief danger will lie in the curiously contradictory attacks made upon them in connection with it. First, they were blamed for keeping gasoline prices too high. But when they reduced prices to meet all competition, they were blamed for so doing on the grounds that they aimed to ruin the independent oil companies and thereby to establish a monopoly...
...Northfield Seminary for girls and the neighboring school for boys, Mt.Hermon. Both the boys' and the girls' schools give education at half its cost, and provide their students with means of working on the school farms or in their dormitories. Not content to let the school plants lie idle through the Summer, Mr. Moody started the conferences for college students, who meet there in June and July, and for ministers and other Christian workers, who are now holding sessions which are full to overflowing...