Word: recouping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Cabby Hartmann, who once owned a prosperous livery stable, found himself and wife reduced to penury and possessed of no business capital except a 35-year-old cab and Grassmus, his 13-year-old nag. Desperate, "Iron Gustav" resolved to recoup his fortunes by setting out for Paris, a 665-mile drive, selling postcards to the curious along the way, and displaying a sign which read...
...book, illustrated by the best contemporary artists. This was printed, and the few copies offered to the public were snapped up at 30 guineas ($150) apiece; but the book cost 90 guineas per copy to produce and so Mr. Lawrence went bankrupt. The present edition is to recoup this bankruptcy. The original work, called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is now on sale in a minute U. S. edition at $20,003 a copy;? and the present volume is a very drastic abridgment...
Your mannerisms are choking your utterance and soon they will affect your circulation. In this way Bennett killed the Herald and you can kill TIME. Perhaps you aim to, so you may recoup by selling this recipe...
...tense, wiry Cornelius ("Neelie") Vanderbilt Jr. The Manhattan prints on his bed said that he was just back from Europe, where he had been gathering material-interviews and articles for serial publication-with which he expected to recoup his fortunes, which fell with his newspapers in Florida and California (TIME...
...seized control of Peking, with the consent of Chang, his motives even in that apparent act of bad faith are still under dispute. Some observers have actually asserted that Wu, hard pressed by Chang, asked Feng to "betray" him, in order that he might "flee without disgrace" and recoup his forces, as he has recently managed to do (TIME...