Word: resents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Independence, Kans. is the home of Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line which Harry F. Sinclair merged with his Sinclair Consolidated Corp. in 1932. Citizens of Independence still resent the merger, feel that onetime Prairie Chairman William Samuel ("Sam") Fitzpatrick "sold out." Last week resentment boiled into a law suit when the onetime secretary of Prairie Oil and six stockholders filed a petition in a Federal court to dissolve Consolidated Oil, appoint a receiver for its $375,000,000 assets. The suit charged fraud, misrepresentation and manipulation in the merger with Prairie Oil, accused "Sam" Fitzpatrick of accepting...
...these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between three and four feet tall, though some (notably the one who was photographed on J. P. Morgan's lap during a Senate investigation last year) are as tiny as 1 ft. 9 in. Midgets bitterly resent being miscalled dwarfs, who are usually misshapen or deformed. Usually born normal, and of normal parents, midgets invariably produce normal children. Though many of the earth's 2,000 living midgets come from Austria, Hungary and Germany, about one-sixth of them are natives of the U. S. Midgets...
...Mississippian, I do resent the unwarranted insults heaped upon the South in general and Mississippi in particular as a result of these hangings (TIME, April 16, Letters), particularly those of one A. J. Smith...
...intentions with proper buoyancy and Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
...Revere alumnus, we resent that. The stirring strains of the school song are still ringing in our ears: "Fight for Revere, boys, Revere will win. Fight to the finish, never give...