Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that are a little severe. ... It seems to me that a crime was committed against this country when ... a nation friendly to Nicaragua was offended in the greatest pride that it can have, the honor of its army and of its marines. I refer to the United States of America...
...cure the 46-year-old Tacna-Tacna pain in the left side of South America, statesmen of Chile and Peru met late one night last week in rustic, thatch-roofed Tacna City. At midnight they began to sign 138 peace-potent documents...
...John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in the room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq." Impartial, the Gazette gave George Washington no more space when he was appointed commander-in-chief of "all the provincial troops in North America...
...Perckhammer aboard the ship "nearly went crazy trying to do photographic justice to the scene." Then to Detroit she went, where lay the new little all-metal dirigible (TIME, Sept. 2). Dr. Eckener stopped eating caviar & bread to exclaim: "I never saw such tremendous cities as there are in America." A breath of Canadian air, and then came Cleveland at midnight...
Once a prime whaling centre, New England is now whale-conscious only when a stray carcass is washed ashore to decompose into a smelly blubbery mass. From San Pedro, Cal., a few independent whalers operate on a small scale. But except for some whaling boats that make South America their headquarters and a few English companies, Norway has a practical monopoly on the industry...