Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Allen went. He said he would rather live only six months more, usefully, in Africa, than ten years more in the U. S., where "a priest 70 years old is not wanted much." Last week came news that Father Allen had died, aged 79, in the mission of Bolahun. Liberia, whither his Lord had called...
...claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear it criticized was torture to him. And, in Nebraska not only had he faced charges of ineptitude and duplicity, but, unlike the commission which had picked the bold Goodhue design from among ten other plans submitted, many Nebraskans were blunt, blind, interpreted everything in financial terms. If Architect Goodhue had been alive last week he would probably have been miserable again. For the Nebraska capitol, now all but completed, was again being impugned. The charges lodged with the state legislature were identical...
Doubtless he did this as automatically as a parson citing one of the Ten Commandments, and with as little expectation of being challenged. Lord Balfour laid down the astute principle that Great Britain will not exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House...
...Ten best 1928 customers (in millions of dollars...
...coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding to their crude petroleum sales. Chile copper and Chile sodium nitrate accounted for the Chilean gain. Low prices for silk and rubber resulted in smaller purchases from all Oriental countries except India. The ten countries selling the most goods (millions of dollars) to the U. S. in 1928 were: Canada 489.0 Japan 384.3 United Kingdom 348.4 Germany 222.0 Brazil 220.7 British Malaya 204.3 Cuba 202.7 France 158.7 China 156.6 British India...