Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In recent issues the revered Atlantic Monthly published three articles on the life of Abraham Lincoln by a Miss Wilma Frances Minor, based upon hitherto unknown Lincolniana in the possession of Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after...
They rounded up at Berlin where Fran collected another lover, and this one she proposed to marry. Sam, bewildered, obligingly "deserted" to Paris where he found an honest harlot; to Italy where he found the improbable Edith. Edith thought she could be happy with him in Zenith, though "America terrifies...
In Honduras or any other tropical country, army ants might have been used for the rat eradication. These insects travel in regular columns and with horrifying voracity eat every living thing in their paths−insects, mice, rats, snakes, even humans. Natives welcome the ants' arrival to their homes...
As everyone knows, Western Union and Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to...
The next day (March 26) money opened not at 9%, but at 12%. It rose to 15%, exceeding the previous day's high. Another and a greater selling wave set in−especially in coppers. The amateurs fled even faster than the day before and hundreds who did not...