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The real crux of the speech was a statement by the Chancellor anent the "safeguarding" and McKenna duties, British equivalents of U. S. protective tariffs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of a rarely discriminative collection of such tidbits, he has fashioned these wholly delightful and often pungent essays chiefly anent great soldiers of the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, at the Department of Commerce, Candidate Hoover received reports anent his great expectation.

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He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies.

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These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles an’ all anent them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker