Word: 16th
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Imposed Deadline. A city of 182,000 and the birthplace of Jean Jacques Rousseau, as well as of the Red Cross, Geneva got into the conference business early. During the 16th century, under Reformer John Calvin, Geneva was the Protestant Rome. In 1872 Geneva's city hall was the headquarters of a five-man commission that arbitrated a dispute between Britain and the U.S. over the damages caused by the British-built Confederate raider Alabama. The luckless League of Nations was established in Geneva in 1920. After the League was erased by World War II, the United Nations took...
...following night at nearby Canton, Lamarche scored his 16th after eight seconds of the first period, but the Larries recovered quickly as Ron Mason scored unassisted 24 seconds later...
...opponents warned that once the floodgate was opened the top rate might some day reach 50% or even higher. Idaho's William E. Borah, a great Senate champion of the amendment, was outraged at the suggestion, complained that it insulted his "sense of fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate was set at 7%. By 1932 it had reached 25%. Then in 1932, beset by the fears and rancors of the Great Depression, the Congress upped the maximum to 63% in one wild thrust...
...upon him. Convinced that Lewis is Vivaldi's nephew, his cult has urged him into thinner and thinner air since he appeared with his three fellow ascetics in the first Modern Jazz Quartet performances ten years ago. In pursuit of something that sounded agreeably like jazz from the 16th century, Lewis soon became one of the half-dozen important jazz composers, writing such a mannered form of music that his compositions set a whole new tone...
...peace, and somehow-I don't know why-peace seems to have a better chance in the Times. Everybody else seems to be shouting at us and giving the human race six weeks to get out. But the Times is always saying that there was trouble in the 16th century too. It never seems to think that anything is quite as good or as bad as others make...