Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shrugged our shoulders when we have seen cotton run up & down the scale between 4½? and 28?; wheat run down & up the scale between $1.50 and 30?; corn, hogs, cattle, potatoes, rye, peaches-all of them fluctuating from month to month and from year to year in mad gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil...
...Marsh Pitzman, an old friend of Mrs. Muench, had certified that she had given birth. On the stand, however, he told a different story. The first time he had seen the child, he said, was when it was lying on a bed in the Muench home. He recalled that red-headed Mrs. Muench had been at pains to point out to him that the baby had red hair. Dr. Pitzman took the child to a window, found its hair was not red. Suspicion finally dawned, Dr. Pitzman said, when no one, not even Dr. Muench, stepped forward to say that...
...CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. In an adjoining room, 800 more spectators will observe the play on an electric board. "What is this," asked Baron Robert de Nexon, team captain, "a circus?" The French nobleman who manages Pierre Wertheimer's famed racing stud is not unsophisticated. But he had seen nothing yet. The show that Mike Jacobs cooked up for the tenth and last night of the tournament will be held before 15,000 people in Madison Square Garden. The players will be closeted in soundproof glass booths. On a table top 100 ft. square, 52 sandwich men will...
...Only a saintly man can see it," explained the High Priest, adding with Ethiopian tact, "I have never seen it myself...
...plea of "guilty of speeding" offered by the envoy's humble native American chauffeur who, with touching fidelity, had sought to save his master. In Washington, where members of Asia's diplomatic missions pride themselves on "being hep to everything United States," the speeding incident was seen at the Iranian Legation to be a piece of trivial yokelry. However, to keep the diplomatic record straight, heavily embossed Iran stationery was got out and a formal protest to the State Department written, signed, sealed and delivered.* Without divulging their reason for so doing the Cabinet of Iran suddenly resigned...