Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate was the largest ever probated in Oregon...
Auspiciously inaugurating the new season, which officially begins this afternoon. Bud Talbot introduced Bert Haines as the first speaker. Haines was full of praise for the way the Henley Regatia was run this year. His only regret was the close race his 150-pound oarsmen lost to Kent in England. "Kent was too heavy for us in that strong headwind." he explained ruefully...
Professor of Philosophy here since 1924, Whitehead retired in 1937 at the age of 75. His retirement brought praise for the man from the ends of the earth and deep regret at his leaving. Before his Harvard appointment he taught at Cambridge University and the University of London. With Albert Einstein he did considerable work in the mathematical field, and he is the author of "Principal Mathematica" and "The Principle of Relativity...
...which he said Mr. Service had written to him in 1928 in answer to a question: "I have no doubt that the Malamute Saloon was entirely imaginary. At this distant date, however, I have little recollection of the circumstances in which my notorious ballad was perpetrated, and my only regret is that I have been unable to live it down." An old bonanza operator named "Skiff" Mitchell had the last word. Sniffed he: "I knew Sam McGee, the fellow who was cremated in that other poem, before he was cremated. Mahoney knew him afterward...
...criticizing the committee or its staff but I regret to see that almost all the information it is getting comes from TVA witnesses, who come on the stand and tell us what they want to tell us, except for what additional facts members of the committee can get out of them by questions...