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  • The crucial legislative battle of the Missourian's first term was a one eerily familiar today: between congressional Republican plans for a substantial tax cut and Democratic hopes of retaining high levels of taxation to fund a national healthcare system.

    Meredith Bagby: What Truman Can Teach Obama About the Deficit Meredith Bagby 2010

  • The crucial legislative battle of the Missourian's first term was a one eerily familiar today: between congressional Republican plans for a substantial tax cut and Democratic hopes of retaining high levels of taxation to fund a national healthcare system.

    Meredith Bagby: What Truman Can Teach Obama About the Deficit Meredith Bagby 2010

  • Missourian's keen eye was fixed upon a sweat-stained horse that had been traveling the hills all night.

    A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • A frosty gleam crept into the old Missourian's eye.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • On Main Street in the evening every one speculated on the Missourian's purpose in coming to

    Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • Tom Butterworth to start manufacturing the corn-cutters, had affected the lives of fewer people, but it had carried the Missourian's name into other places and had also made a new kind of poetry in railroad yards and along rivers at the back of cities where ships are loaded.

    Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • For out of the eerie darkness, something had launched itself at him -- something silent and terrible, that had flown to the Missourian's aid.

    Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • For all these reasons -- and because Mahan was too busy and too grumpy to bother with him -- Bruce elected to stay where he was, for a while, and share the Missourian's vigil.

    Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • A doctrine of rigid aloofness and separatism was developed as a wall of defense, as binding upon a Missourian's conscience as almost any article in the Augsburg Confession could possibly be.

    American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) 1894

  • Passing out of the stable-yard he recognized the Missourian's voice in whispered conversation with the proprietor, but the two men withdrew into the shadow as he approached.

    Clarence Bret Harte 1869

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