Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the Senate's Commerce Committee could investigate. The Senate, always pro-government-ownership-operation on shipping, gravely adopted the McKellar resolution. Washington's Jones, the Senate's chief shipping expert, sighed profoundly. "In my judgment," he said, "the United States will never be offered so much for the ships again...
...laws relating to Indians might be tricky, they said. So the sharp-eyed men and the woman-he had learned her name now: Anna Laura Lowe-took Jackson Barnett to Independence, Mo., and had the marriage performed a second time. That struck Jackson as unfair. He had not cared much about getting married once. Twice was much big nuisance, too much...
...secretary permits reporters to enter the hall, and Mr. Morgan emerges from his bedroom. The correspondents are excited, abashed and somewhat breathless, for no one had supposed that Mr. Morgan was going to slip off to such an unheard of old hotel, and he has been located only after much frantic telephoning...
Sommelier: "Ah, M'sieu, the cognac Napoleon 1820 is much better than the cognac of any of the Emperor's happier years!" (Curtain...
...plain," smiled M. Poincaré, "that a representative government operates less smoothly when it has to lay heavy burdens on its people than when it has only to please them. And France," he added ruminatively, "France has much to bear...