Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insull situation, General Dawes must have been perturbed last week at the price of Commonwealth Edison short-term notes which fall due July 30. Only 97½ was bid for them, a price which would give the buyer a 27% return to maturity. And he must have noted with regret the passing of the Sears, Roebuck dividend. Commentators saw this omission as the company's opinion that the grain markets will not rally soon. Principal grains last week had lost their recent advances and were slumping to new lows on good weather reports. Cotton held its gains more tenaciously...
...unless one can define them, is it not? Under what category of animals whose breeding and marketing are regulated by the Government are we to classify them? They are not game. They are not fish. Snails do not come under any category of animals that we have listed. We regret, therefore, messieurs, that we can do nothing...
...founder of Johnson & Johnson (surgical supplies) resigned from the presidency of the company which he has held for 22 years, resigned his directorship and all positions with subsidiaries. Said his announcement: "Having . . . received notice that I am a pensioner, I herewith tender my resignation." His resignation accepted "with profound regret," Mr. Johnson prepared to sail for Scotland...
Around the fire they gathered in the cool of a May evening to talk, as Harvard men will, "of ships and sealing wax and things." '28 asked the Vagabond about Class Day down in the Houses with a note of stale regret in his voice and the Vagabond answered in the words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart...
...Jamaica, bribed with a knighthood, pending his extermination of what few old buccaneer friends of his still carried on. Most reprobate, most elusive was Morgan's old associate Tom Leach. His bad ship Black Swan was rarely sighted, then only to the sighting crew's short-lived regret...