Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S editors have furnished me with many a new word for my personal Word Book-with which I take great pains-but "rackets" yields up no satisfactory notation or connotation in its present context...
Chairman Raskob gave heed to the heart of B. F. Yoakum's long letter: "The Democrats can present a marketing plan that is sound, practical and would be profitable to the farmers of the entire country, but they cannot do it by picking up the discarded remnants of the McNary-Haugen bill and following the false prophets of that discarded and exploded theory. They don't hold the farm vote in their pockets. They can't deliver it and any one who thinks they can will be deceived...
...Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth of 20, who is now an undergraduate at the famed Belgian University of Louvain...
Since a lady-in-waiting is always present at the meetings of the Princess and 70-year-old Fiddler Ysaye, Brabanters considered the phrase "too often" outrageous and uncalled...
...present expedition's airship, now lost. †The Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile dirigible (TIME...