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...matter at stake is two of his statements made on Sept. 5 and 9 and principally the declaration regarding the loss of the Shenandoah and near-loss...
...Significance. The question at stake in West Virginia is not only whether the Union shall gain as complete control of bituminous coal mining as it has of anthrasite, but also of whether the anthracite strike shall be successful. For while the anthracite mines are shut, a good part of their clientele is being supplied from the West Virginia bituminous region. A strike in West Virginia would make the Pennsylvania strike, effective...
Sober pinch-pennies derive great pleasure from betting-they are indeed the most daring fellows alive, for they hazard their careful stake on the expected and the expected rarely occurs. Your extravagant defrauds himself of excitement. He favors unlikelihoods, only to see them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams...
...matters at stake are of course not completely open to the public, but it transpired that recently William Zumbrunn, attorney for the Klan, visited Denver and requested the resignation of Dr. John Galen Locke, Grand Dragon of Colorado. Grand Dragon Locke announced this fact at a meeting of the local Klan and added that he had tendered his resignation. The meeting rose up and gave him a great ovation. His resignation was not accepted...
...year 1415, Emperor Sigismund, the perfidious ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and the last of the Luxemburg dynasty, had burned at the stake one John Hus, protestant against the Catholic Church (he is alleged to have intimated that the Antichrist might be found at Rome), and a hero of Bohemia...