Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeronautics. Three bills were passed-growing in large measure out of the to-do over aviation started by Colonel William Mitchell last fall-one gave the Department of Commerce supervision over civil aviation, the other two provided five year building programs for the air arm of Army and Navy. The Departments of Commerce, War, Navy will each have an Assistant Secretary in charge of aviation...
With an abrupt, nervous sweep of his arm General Szeptycki raised and discharged his pistol. He had missed. No change appeared in the handsome, slightly mocking visage of the Count, but the gentlemen who watched him bring his lean weapon slowly into position knew that they were about to witness a tragedy. Count Skrzynski did not know how to miss; he was one of the deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With...
Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...
...Philippines-set up an isolated experimental camp in an uncultivated field a mile from the city. Attracted by the offer of $250, several peons volunteered as well as a few American youths. Buck-private John R. Kissinger unflinchingly watched the mosquitoes' hypodermics charged with fever serum pierce his arm . . . waited ... no infection . . . relief The medicos tried him again . . . waited . . . heavy sickness . . . almost death. Another lad submitted, died a martyr . . . The doctors abandoned camp. They had the proof...
...arm of the slender Secretary of the Treasury came the bride. Her entire gown was of point d'Angleterre over cream satin, with a court train of the same lace. Her veil was of tulle with a circlet of pearls about the brow and held in place by a spray of orange blossoms on each side. She wore long sleeves, and her dress came within ten inches of the floor. Her bouquet was voluminous with white orchids and lilies of the valley. She wore a string of pearls...