Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeking reasons for the story's end, a remark by Assistant Attorney-General Washburn was significant: "Until after the stockmarket crash, Metal & Mining Shares seems to have been a well managed investment trust...
...would marry the milk man if I loved him," added Miss Nelda more or less relevantly, accompanying her remark with a smile that would have made the Marquis of Queensbury look upon milk vending with an envious...
...above statistics speak for themselves when considered in the light of Mayor Curley's alleged remark concerning "Harvard slackers...
There was a suppressed question as to her airworthiness. Last spring, to give her greater lifting power, she had been cut in two and a 45-ft. section inserted at the slice. A friend of Major G. H. Scott said he had made a remark "about a patched or mended shoe never being quite as sound as a new one." Was the new construction absolutely integral with the original? Might there be an uncalculated weakness at the middle? Might a gale buckle...
...joined forces with Germany in the World War instead of with France, General Pershing's legendary remark on the arrival abroad of the A. E. F. might have been: "Von Steuben, we are here!"- The Frenchman Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la La Fayette, was of very slightly more aid to the American revolutionary cause than was the German Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben, experienced Prussian officer, became in 1778 Inspector General of the Continental Army. He drilled recruits, made soldiers. In 1781 he watched his soldiers defeat...