Word: mayhap
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...Pennsy is not sole in its extensive plans. The New York Central a few months ago consulted with General Electric to electrify its tracks along the Hudson River from Manhattan towards Albany, and mayhap to Buffalo. And practically every other large system has plans, more or less detailed, in the same vein...
...delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge some advice. This was the advice: "I do not know whether you have...
...honest and no doubt sincere zeal, would be interested probably to learn that Consul General Curtis never drinks beer, and mayhap was distinctly embarrassed by being pushed into the picture as a member of the Brock-Schlee reception committee in the interest of American aviation to view the stein-clicking proclivities of Messrs. Brock and Schlee who no doubt thoroughly enjoy beer-drinking in jurisdictions where it is not a crime. If an American representative abroad may not be permitted in the vicinity of alcoholic beverages nor witness drinking it would be necessary to withdraw all of our representatives, pending...
...would smile a bit, mayhap...
...abrogate that contract. At the same time Mr. Harriman was noting the low earnings of transatlantic carriage. Now it seems, from the sale of these three ships, that the Hamburg-American Line is to go more on its own, that Harriman will concentrate more on his coastwise shipping, mayhap resume his railroad activities. (He is a director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman of the W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., of the American Ship & Commerce Corp., of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Corp., of the United American Lines, Inc., of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corp., and director...