Word: omar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Tobacco Co. did remarkably well last year, according to its annual report last week. This company makes a horde of useful products?Lucky Strike (It's toasted"), Egyptian Straights, Herbert Tareyton, Johnny Walker, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Naturals, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal ("Ask Dad, he knows"), Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Serene, Old English Curve Cut, and many another. Their sales?billions of cigarets and tobacco packages?netted the company $22,238,919 last year. This meant, after preferred dividends were paid, $9.77 a share (par $50) on the $97,639,600 of common and common B stocks outstanding...
...acquired on his trip many valuable books and nearly 500 manuscripts for the University. He has been twice president of the American Oriental Society, and has edited the journal of this organization for 15 years. Professor Lanman has also been president of the American Philogical Association, and of the Omar Khayyam Club of America...
Bluffing on the part of the Angora Government began by calling four more classes to the Turkish colors, the massing of four divisions of cavalry at Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The Jumhuiet, famed Turkish Government journal, announced: "They are merely measures of national defense . . . since the emasculate League of Nations wallows as a mere servile instrument of British dictatorship. A recourse to arms remains as our only means of defending our rights...
...perhaps you have a set of Shakespeare, or have read him, or don't like him anyhow? The all-seeing publishers have thought of that. No matter! They are prepared to throw in at the same price a copy of Omar Khayyam, or "Auction Bridge for Beginners", or that amazing treasure-house, "Mrs. Doe's Famous Cook Book...
...next approached a dignified old Prophezzor whose erudition. I was told, is simply oppressive. "Knowledge is the basis of education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is my practice to confront the Satellites with a brief quotation from some obscure poem. I then require them to cite chapter, verse, page and line, and to quote what precedes and follows, omitting every other word. None but the finest memory can do that." It was pitiful to see the four...