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...education clause is the Plan's red rag to the pious, for it provides, "The primary school, in addition to excluding religious instructions, will provide truthful answers-scientific and rational-to every question not clear in the minds of students...
...process of collecting the investment trusts which swelled Atlas Corp.'s resources from $14,000,000 to $121,000,000 in four Depression years Mr. Odlum of necessity picked up a rag, tag & bobtail assortment of assets along with the stocks & bonds of hundreds of major U. S. corporations. Among the barge lines, furniture factories, Long Island estates, vacant lots, amusement parks and fruit ranches was Bonwit Teller. Founder Paul J. Bonwit borrowed money from Ungerleider Financial Corp. to move up Fifth Avenue from 38th Street to 56th Street in 1930. As times went from bad to worse...
...will not stay!" cried the badgered Premier, bursting into tears as he left the Cortes. "I cannot permit myself to be made one of those carnival rag dolls at which the public throw balls...
...existence; the precious metal is as important to the jeweler as to the economist. For this reason, everyone knows a little about it; and because it is so important to everyone, its recovery is work for willing hands always. It is much more sensible to set a ruined rag merchant to planning gold than to put a sapling in his hands with orders to plant it. And though earnings may be low for the place miner, he is doing something which does not seem to him unmitigated drudgery, and which keeps him alive in the hope of a rich strike...
...Wigglesworth C-12, in Thayer 53, they are telling one another eagerly, of what may be done. Four A's at November hours and Group I; time to spare for the new-found liberty; for Brattles, for the theatre, for opera, for football, for the Tent and a rag and a bone. Harvard is the world's greatest University...