Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio farm. Quietly they planned a marriage which Sophie contemplated as a cure to her restlessness. But the black-eyed prodigal, son of the village doctor, thundered past her white bride's house on swift racing horses and lured her. And Sophie, hesitating, wondering, hoping he might have the answer Lynn had failed to give, staggered out to him in the stormy night, escaped with him to the great outside. Yet even in the escaping she knew that some day she would come back to the white safety of Lynn and his house...
Unrocked by revolution the northwest corner of Mexico celebrated the Sabbath and St. Patrick's Day with horseracing. The animals raced from mid-morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm...
...distinguishing characteristic of the Harrods series was its success in making three excellent testimonials out of three refusals to give testimonials. Harrods had asked H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw to "lend the influence of their pens to the cause of Business" by writing what might vulgarly be termed an advertisement for Harrods. All three refused. But all three also wrote long letters explaining their position. Mr. Wells and Mr. Bennett virtually watered their refusals with their tears, Mr. Shaw seemed somewhat less tempted and some what less grieved...
Familiar is the figure of the executive who has worked up from office boy or shipping clerk, whose leadership of a company has resulted from long familiarity with all its twists and turns. Less familiar, but recently much in vogue, is what might be termed the Professional Executive. His distinguishing characteristic is the fact that he becomes president of a company not because of what he knows about the company but because of what he knows about being a president. He is in the business of running things, and what he runs is a subordinate factor in the situation. Thus...
...Morgan had become interested in Johns-Manville. Thus Mr. Brown was, in effect, transferred from mail-orders to roofing, said good-bye to catalogues and greeted shingles. It is conceivable enough that should the Morgan group acquire a soap factory and need a good executive for it, Mr. Brown might cease to concern himself with roofing and begin to concern himself with soap...