Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something must be done to stop the terrible suffering to women in the "birth race" which is sure to ensue for this money. I can think of only one way to stop it, but please print my idea. It is not "highfalutin," but is based on the fact that men will act only from the most sordid self interest...
Thus five young couples would be tided over their period of early struggle, and the five women should not suffer much if chosen from "easy bearing" families and given "twilight sleep." One of the couples would be "scientifically sure" to win the prize, and from his $50,000 the investor (whatever his motives) would have made the enormous profit of $1,450,000 in nine years...
...Ugly") died in Wadi Haifa, Egypt. He was 90. He had spent 22 years in prison, more than 20 years slave trading, some 25 years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders...
Though all such rumors are sure to be denied up to the moment of official announcement (usually a month or two before the marriage is to take place) it seemed certain last week that the Rumanian and Italian Governments have taken the possibility of dynastic union under serious advisement...
...Jamaica Kid, climbed stiffly into a prize-ring in Waterbury, Conn., and assumed an upright position before Jack Delaney, world's light heavyweight champion. He had been paid a certain sum of money to get into that ring so that Delaney could have something to hit. To be sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney hit him in the stomach. The Kid fell down...