Word: ort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Smith Did Sirs: I am surprised and disgusted with TIME. You tell all about what Boris, the big Serb, did on March 4, but not one word do you give about the other man who if half a million votes had been ort the other side of the fence would have been the big show on March...
When the Louisiana purchase gave New Orleans to the Unite States the general expectation was that the Louisiana ort would become a clearing house for the whole Mississippi Valley and in time become one of the greatest cities of the world. But since popular expectation does not follow the imagination of Poe or Jules Verne it could not foresee that its prophecies would fall short of fulfillment thanks to the railroads. Sometimes, however, prophets are unwittingly right; the present chaotic condition of those railroads may yet result in the lifting of New Orleans to greatness while the natural course...