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...invariably reply, and to a special Weaver list of 100,000 motor enthusiasts, of whom as many as 90% will reply. On the average, Weaver manages to get answers to about two-thirds of his 3,000,000 "invitations." Passing on what he learns to his superiors, he is wont to remark: "2,000,000 opinions make a fact...
Here Kirkland took the advantage which was to eventually bring its lone, winning touchdown. The Deacons, after being held for downs wont back into punt formation with Jack McClure back McClure booted the ball high, and it headed slightly left of the goal posts...
...make most countries, oldtime Alaskans are wont to remark, but the Klondike made men. Last week some 500 men & women the Klondike made gathered in the Multnomah Hotel in Portland...
...Bucharest last week, the lying in state of Her late Majesty was in the ornate Byzantine Hall of her Cotroceni Palace, the same hall in which, when giving audience to foreigners she was wont to exclaim as Queen, "I designed this hall. You have admired it, yes. Ah, but you should have seen it when my husband, King Ferdinand, was laid out there at the far end in Death-it was beautiful!" The ladies of the Court, by express command of the Dowager Queen, mourned her not in black but in a color she had described as violet Cardinal. While...
...been executed at Hankow by a firing squad. Said Shanghai's Daily China Press, which the distant Chinese Government still controls: "The shamelessness of many Chinese generals in the recent past is indeed appalling. Even in the days of the defunct [Imperial] Manchu regime responsible generals were wont to resort to suicide in attempts to redeem their personal honor...