Word: tes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meyer Friedman and Jacob Sergei Kasinin became interested in G.G.'s and R.G.'s flouting of the accepted rule, made tes after test to discover some organic difference in the twins. There was no difference. The doctors even tested the flow of blood to the kidneys, because a poor kidney blood supply is believed to lead to heart trouble. Both twins had a poor kidney blood supply. Mystified, the doctors conclude that 1) Lead in the Pants has something the matter with him that the doctors cannot find; 2) Speed-Up George (who now has a heart attack...
Back at the hotel he held private tête-a-têtes for the rest of the evening before leaving for Sacramento. Not only did Republicans call on him, but Democrats as well. The rising tide of interest in him was obvious. Telephone calls flooded in, keeping his secretary and several volunteers busy. One man called to volunteer to dress himself as Paul Revere and begin riding throughout the Western states until the convention next year...
...they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course, the demimondaines who sat professionally in the lobby." Warned Bratianu-beard, "Watch your step, Madame, and confide in nobody except in us." Said the Grey hound: "Nous sommes les seules personnes discrètes a Bucharest...
...price, nobody knows what figures (if any) have been mentioned in the Barnes-Raver tête-à-têtes. Puget Sound has total assets of $137,343,000, and E. P. S. (which owns 99.3% of the common) has sunk some $33,000,000 in the property. Before he can claim anything for his common, Mr. Barnes must get $70,000,000 for Puget Sound's bonds and prior preference stock, and satisfy the holders of $26,400,000 of preferred, who also, with the prior preference, are owed $16,224,000 in arrearages. That means...
...world's most exclusive clubs. Here had fraternized some of the bluest U. S. bloods - nine Adamses, seven Lowells, eleven Cabots. If the Lowells speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots only to God, the Pore is where they hold their téte-à-tétes...