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...Francisco, he said airily: "There's always ways of picking them up-like we're picking up the Central." As his interests in Missouri Pacific lie with the common stockholders, he is once more using his cry of "banker domination" to good effect. If & when he gets MOP, Bob Young's master plan will have gained him what Railroad Barons Fisk and Hill tried to get-a railroad system running from coast to coast...
Cardigan's catalogue said that annual tuition (including board) would be $1,100 -and be sure to bring "one dustpan, one mop, one broom." Cardigan wanted its students (sixth through ninth grade) to know that they would have to use their hands as well as their heads. There were other schools where the boys also had to make their own beds, wait on table, clean their rooms. But Cardigan's chores gave city kids a taste of the country. By last week, heading home for Christmas, Cardigan's 27 youngsters (aged eleven to 16) were old hands...
...light he looked ashen grey. His eyes were sunken, his skin flabby, his once thick mop of hair was grey, dry and scraggly. He looked his full 66 years. But his mien, as usual, was impassive...
...congratulate you; it was a well-chosen word, aptly used. For my back bristles, a rubbing with ashes on a cornshuck mop...
...blights that strike down the farmer's crops. They studied more than 1,000 crop-killing chemicals. Some of them, sprayed from the air "in infinitesimal dilution," allowed the crops to grow for a while, apparently healthy, but they yielded no harvest. In biological war, slow hunger would mop up the field behind quick death by pestilence...