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From Tokyo it was reported that the Japanese Government would cer- tainly not recall Mr. Hanihara for his ingenuous juxtaposition of the words "grave" and "consequences."
From Time Magazine Archive
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“You cer- ♦Cemetery Hill. tainly don’t mean—sir, I have been under the impression that it would be our strategy to conduct a defensive campaign, wherever possible, in order to keep this army intact.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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The healing of such cases should cer- tainly prove to all minds the power of metaphysics over physics; and it surely does, to many thinkers, as the rapid growth of the work shows.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker
Rickfield was hooked, and Credite Suisse was the cer- tain Swiss bank in question.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
A cer- tain date is fixed when these shares and stocks are saleable "ex-div." or "ex-interest."
From Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein by Cotton, William
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