Word: abouts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shortly after Mr. Baker was made Secretary of War, the President decided to send an expedition into Mexico to operate against Villa who had raided Columbus, N. Mex. This was one of the first serious problems Mr. Baker had to meet. He called a conference in his office in which...
¶ For three hours on end last week President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sat facing each other in the White House. Solemnly they talked about the progress being made toward another conference on the limitation of naval armaments (see p. 25).
On May i, 1898, Manila Bay was thunderous with gunfire. Weaving skeins of smoke twined about the embattled fleets. There lay the Spanish defenders, here the besieging U. S. Pacific Fleet, a brood of assorted fighting craft clustered about their proud flagship U. S. S. Olympia. On the battle-stripped...
Last fortnight flames licked about this Democratic shrine. Two barns, a corn crib and the carriage house went up in smoke, down in ashes. Damage: $19,999 (no insurance). Cause: unknown (Republicans were locally suspected of arson on general principles). Caretakers trundled out to safety the coach in which Jackson...
"I had collected stamps for about 30 years without ever being in any way connected with any stamp association or club . . . which entitles me to the claim of being fairly modest as a stamp collector?up to April 1922, when I became the owner of the world's rarest stamp...