(he sank thousands of dollars, for instance, in a failed attempt to develop a new kind of typesetting machine, and thousands more into his own ultimately unsuccessful publishing house) and unrestrained spending that left him in frequent financial difficulty, a pattern that was to persist through...
(he sank thousands of dollars, for instance, in a failed attempt to develop a new kind of typesetting machine, and thousands more into his own ultimately unsuccessful publishing house) and unrestrained spending that left him in frequent financial difficulty, a pattern that was to persist through...
interest rates sank to levels similar to the yield available from equities, sometimes even lower. When interest rates finally began to climb back to historically ordinary levels, prices of both bonds and stocks suffered, and this resulted in balanced portfolios producing meaningful losses. To our cr...
This etext was produced by David Widger SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain CONTENTS: PREFACE MY WATCH POLITICAL ECONOMY THE JUMPING FROG JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN A
In time the camp wore itself out with its orgies and sank into a stolid and pitiable stupor, in whose mysterious bonds rank was forgotten and strange bedfellows made, our eyes, at the resurrection, being blasted and our souls petrified with the incredible spectacle of that intolerable stinking ...
Burr is also out with his first TV ad of the cycle, focusing on his down-home-ness, presumably to ward off the “gone Washington” problem that sank Elizabeth Dole two years ago. The buy is for $578K (click the link to see the breakdown among the state’s many media markets). ...
Aunt Patsy’s heart sank, the pallor of despair invaded her face, she was not able to speak; poor Rowena wrung her hands in privacy and silence, and said to herself in the bitterness of her young grief, “There is no hope–it is plain there is no hope”; the good-hearted negro ...
which appeared to 19th century archaeologists to be a gross exaggeration. Bro Warren reasoned that the repeated destruction of the city would have caused the valley to fill. He decided to excavate on the outer side of the wall surrounding the Haram as Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary. He sank a ...
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Finally we stood to sea and bore away for San Miguel, and Flores shortly became a dome of mud again and sank down among the mists, and disappeared. But to many a seasick passenger it was good to see the green hills again, and all were more cheerful after this episode than anybody ...