Word: perhapses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . . The condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing...
"Golden Harvest?" Alarmist reports from the Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long...
There was no outstanding favorite in the tournament, which will not be ended until Aug. 28. Safest prediction perhaps was that the favorite opening would be the Queen's Gambit, which seemed likely to be adopted in 60%, perhaps 70%, of the games. Chess Masters have a tendency to play...
Jose R. Capablanca, onetime world champion, is perhaps most logical of players. He never takes chances, is better at match play than in tournament. He holds a somewhat honorary position in the Cuban diplomatic corps, and is an expert at bridge. His well grounded confidence has frequently been mistaken for...
Few judges know of this quantitative test. They depend upon the layman's crude idea of drunkenness?can the accused walk a straight line, can he stand on one leg, can he clearly enunciate "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Perhaps a medico-legal diagnosis of just what...