Word: attachments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking harassed and anxious, Secretary Wilbur spent Christmas even seeing and hearing more for himself at Provincetown. He ordered the S-4 to be salvaged straightway. The divers tunneled under the S-4 in two places, to attach lifting chains. The Atlantic raged, delaying the work...
...promote accuracy, the plan would make for harshness quite as often as for leniency. "The power of the judge to sentence to death has done more than anything else to prevent convictions for murder in the first degree," Governor Smith pointed out. If properly constituted, a sentencing board could attach rehabilitation measures to the penalties it assigned. Its edicts would range from ordering minor surgical operations, and rest cures, to the insane asylum and the electric chair...
...suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed and then the screams of children and women who soon blackened in the heat. A little boy climbed the flag pole, trying...
Cleverer was a Japanese attaché who noted that the ages of the chief delegates closely approximated a 3-5-5 ratio. Mr. Gibson is 43; Mr. Bridgeman 62; and Viscount Saito 69. Japanese thought that a good ratio, a good joke...
...stump in the rear of the temporary White House is the temporary home of Rebecca, pet presidential raccoon. One day last week Rebecca vanished. Attachés called "Rebecca! Rebecca!" Located, eventually, in a neighboring yard, Rebecca hopped from tree to tree while pursuers rushed from trunk to trunk. After two hours Rebecca, tired, permitted herself to be captured...