Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the present system," Sinclair continued, "all that the business men are doing is paying out dole in taxes, which the unemployed return by spending in their stores. Thus, the national debt is rising by the billions, and these greedy business men will have to pay this debt in increased taxes...
...friends considered that by Christmas the impulsive and emotional Mitch may find himself feeling so much better that he needs must carry on. Cried sprinting Minister Croll after anxious cogitation: "Mr. Hepburn can't quit! We won't let him." Assuming that he does quit, Hepburn, will return to his 600-acre cattle, onion and celery farm. There he was born and there at three years of age, according to his fond mother, he lisped, "I want to be a Politician...
...Deal. He is an able analyst and expositor, well grounded in orthodox economics, a diligent, honest newsgatherer. But not even his great & good friend Herbert Hoover outdoes him in bemoaning the evil days on which the land has fallen, in prophesying worse days to come unless citizens return to the tried & true ways of their fathers. Last fortnight he characteristically gloomed: "So much of what is being done to America is tragic...
...these deals with the desperate race to find the Inca Empire, whose fame had spread through South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support as soon as the first gold and the first llamas were en countered. Fifteen members of his party pushed...
Will you do me a great favor and feed my cat a raw hamburger on Saturday and Sunday? I have been called away for the weekend, and I will repay you on my return Monday. Keep the bloody little animal in the bathroom, so that there will be no unfortunate debris elsewhere...