Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Purchase outright from the Government for $5,000,000 of the following property: Nitrate Plant No. 1, Nitrate Plant No. 2, Waco Quarry, a 40,000 horsepower steam plant (to be built)?four items which cost, or will cost, the Government...
Secretary of War Weeks has several times intimated his absolute confidence in the trustworthiness of his servants. He said so in outright fashion to the Filipinos who objected to Governor General Wood, his legate in the Philippines. Two weeks ago a Republican insurgent in Congress presented a resolution for an investigation of General Wood's stewardship in the islands. That was an indication that there were rumors in the political winds...
...have been brought out of Europe, including that celebrated landscape chef d'oeuvre The Mill) intervened, and paid or advanced as a loan to Prince Yusupov 100,000 pounds sterling, taking over the two paintings as security. It was announced at the time that he had purchased them outright, and evidently Mr. Widener himself preferred to view the transaction in that light, as he tightened it up with an iron-clad agreement, signed by the Prince, to the effect that the latter was to forfeit all right to the paintings unless on or before Jan. 1, 1924, he should...
...inclined to impute the passiveness of Mount Holyoke students under this oppressive regulation to ignorance of the distinguished precedents for unstandardized speech rather than to conviction of the worthiness of the purist ideal. And even so, it is hard to see why they would not prefer giving turkeys outright to having their dinner spirits dampened by purist police-women...
...less inclined to lay will emulate those more inclined to lay, and we shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting will restore their egg-laying qualities." Railroad Labor is for outright cooking of the geese in the oven of Government ownership. The heads of the railways rise to hiss at all of these. " Out upon you," they cry, " the geese are just recovering their robust physique. Cook 'them, starve them, pen them up and they will never lay again! Yours...