Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water spurting into the compartment from the battery room duct. I jumped out of the bunk and ran to the door and tried to shut it, but couldn't on account of the pressure of the water rushing in. The water swept me back through the compartment to the control room. I tried to close the doors of the control room, but the pressure of the water was once more too great...
...importation of coal. Said "Jix": "The Government's decision to purchase coal in quantities is prompted by a resolve that the poor must not be deprived of fuel. . . . The Government will not supply coal to large users who can import it on their own account...
...sport is the strain of a championship match so prolonged as in golf. Even in chess, which takes no account of the body, the strain ends when you stop playing, but a golf match can go on and on long after you have played your last stroke. Perhaps Joe Turnesa of Elmsford, N. Y., reflected on this paradox when, with his sticks put away, he stood in front of the Scioto Club (in Columbus, O.) and watched Robert Tyre Jones win the American Open...
...revealing, reluctantly, that after the nomination the President had offered him a post on the new Railway Mediation Board. Rabid Democrats interpreted this as showing that the President held Mr. Wilson's chance for election in Pennsylvania, and even the honor of running, to be of no account...
When scrutinized, Evangelist McPherson's account seemed not to jibe with the discovery of a one-piece bathing suit identified as hers in her automobile, shortly after she disappeared. She made no mention of having been hastily divested of that garment in order that the kidnappers might spirit it into her car before driving off with her to Mexico. Moreover, Evangelist McPherson was not markedly sunburned, last week, though she described vividly her sufferings while crossing burning sands. Speaking from her pulpit at Angelus Temple, she compared her escape to that of Daniel from the lions...