Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high for the year has been 83 (low 72) the inference would be that the purchase was made somewhat by the outsider's proverbial system of buying at the high and selling at the low. Yet, with railroads showing best earnings in years, Mr. Broun might well be told to hang on to his railroad stock, nor let his heart be troubled...
United Corp. For Mr. Broun to identify himself with the industrial fortunes of United Corp. of Delaware, however, might be called shocking in so famed a Liberal. Incorporated early in the present year, United Corp. was formed as a holding company for the Morgan, Drexel, Bonbright and American Superpower holdings in United Gas Improvement, Public Service Corp. of New Jersey, and Mohawk Hudson Power Corp. The company was designed to "foster closer relations between the great public utility systems of the east"-i. e., to promote utility mergers and consolidations. What would Brown Derby think? How could the Nation approve...
...wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that he might see when they be came frosted. He was Lieut. Apollo Soucek...
...vain, though the sacrifice was terrible and though the tangible results seem vague. The very fact that we are here thinking and talking of these things means some thing. Culture turns on a slow wheel. . . . It is as incredible that Don Mellett's self-sacrifice, dying that others might live, will fail to cast its radiance upon striving millions as that the morning Summer sun shall fail to awaken the sleeping earth, open the petals of the nodding flowers and scatter the miasmic mists of darkness. This is the measure of our faith...
...changes, he might then have learned...