Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt White Court the President presented Lieut. Reginald de Noyes Thomas, of Boston and Squantum, Mass., with the Herbert Schiff Memorial trophy for having been aloft last year 583 hours "without serious accident," longer than any other naval airman...
...consider the results of the test. Two results seem to be of possible importance. It appears that an increase in the white blood corpuscles (disease germ eaters) takes place after prolonged fatigue; whereas the current clinical supposition had it that the increase was to be noted only on the approach of enemy disease germs. This discovery, if it be such, may lead doctors to refer occasional early diagnoses of incipient disease to mere overwork. The second "discovery" made during the tests is that the sugar contents of the blood under fatigue remains constant-an observation perhaps of some importance...
...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
...turmoil and stress which used to prevail in South Ireland so wrung his Majesty's heart that, but for him, no approach to a truce or settlement would have been possible...
...favorite angle of approach of the proponents of this false and deceiving propaganda is to point out Federal reductions from the high peak of War taxes and expenditures and the increase in state and local taxes since 1918. Comparisons, to be fair and honest, must cover the entire cycle from 1914 to 1924." He then proceeded to make comparisons between the Federal Government and his own state for the years...