Word: siring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concern. "However, it did not come overnight. We have been working more than eight months on this proposition." From bustling but incurably old-fashioned Nishni Novgorod flashed details of how the proposition was finally put through by Austin's eager, resourceful Executive Vice President George C. Bryant Jr., sire of three daughters and a son who returned to their Cleveland school last week after summering near Pontiac, Mich. Summering in Russia, Mr. Bryant has been in consultation with Soviet engineers who calculated that the new $50,000,000 city could not possibly be built in less than four years...
...Mercy, mercy, Sire!" begged Courtier Streshnief (according to Historian Dolgoroukov). "How can I tell? I was not the only...
...knew a short, plump, brown-eyed, dark-haired schoolteacher with a wealthy sire and Puritan blood. Her name was Laura Celestia Spelman. When they were 25 each, John D. married her. The next year (1865) from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, John D. became an oilman to the exclusion of all else. His refining firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagier, later (1870) the Standard Oil Company. Railroads whose good customer Standard became helped Standard suppress competition by furnishing reports on competitors' shipments. John D. hated having rivals. By 1877 one company...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...
...lips new-cut and coloured by my sire...