Word: sowe
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...Lord brought into the committee room a banking atmosphere different from that of Manhattan's moneymerchants, who sit upon generations of money-an atmosphere of the Midwest, of the lusty young automobile industry, of money still too young to beget staid offspring, but not too young to sow a few wild oats. He himself, now three years short of 50, was 27 years ago a boy from Chicago's outskirt, Evanston, just beginning his financial apprenticeship with N. W. Harris & Co. Six years ago he stepped out of Harris Trust & Savings Bank to carry the banner of finance...
Owned by General Navigation Co., Ltd., Vancouver, the biggish steel steamer Mogul has lain for months off the coast of Southern California. Like a great sow whose piglets feed and scamper, the Mogul has provided constant streams of assorted liquor to a fleet of ten speedboats...
Last week the owners of the rum-sow propositioned the President of the U. S. in such a way as to make the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy active and whacking...
...slaughter in 46 days of 1,000,000 sows weighing 275 Ib. or more. That would reduce next year's pork supply by 5,000,000 unborn pigs. Packers would pay producers a premium of $4 per sow. With hogs now selling at about $4 per cwt., a 275-lb. sow would thus bring...
...knew what you were doing when you bought the book, and began at the beginning, your sensation would be one of gratitude rather than perplexity. You would know that "the Empress" was Empress of Blandings, that she was probably the finest sow in Shropshire, that she was the rotundly ridiculous centre of Author Wodehouse's absurdly complicated plot, and that Lord Tilbury-a figure long familiar to addicts of Wodehumor-was, through a curious weakness in his otherwise adamantine character, about to become involved in that plot far beyond his dreams or his patience. Your sense of gratitude would...