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...overcame its dislike manfully, brought itself to quote its own sales figures: August 1926, 79,458; May 1928, 105,704. Goaded to fury, the Viscountal Daily Mail flung the Post's figures full in its Ducal face. Screamed the Mail: "In close upon two years, the utmost efforts of the Morning Post have succeeded in adding 26,246 copies to its daily net sales. In the same period the net sales of the Daily Mail have risen by 183,579 copies a day." A Harmsworth descended to abysmal (for a ist Viscount) vulgarity, shouted: "No advocacy of the Morning...
...that we have our intellectual snobs, and our athletic snobs, and our social snobs, and our anti-social snobs, and there is little democracy in us. We pursue our own interests whole-heartedly and unhampered, but we are apt to look upon those who follow other paths with utmost scorn...
...accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra hose line with which to wet down the drilling surface. The men dislike using either, however, because...
...Majesty's Government will support the movement to the utmost of their power...
...Japanese Government attach the utmost importance to the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria, and . . . possibly will be constrained to take appropriate and effective steps for the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria...