Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both these operations, the French troops will never be able to put a stop to the harrying of their territory. The Riffi may be driven back to their borders again and again, but never defeated. The humor of the situation, this "Daddy on the Castle" game, is that last autumn Spain had a little mix-up of the same sort and suspected France of supplying arms to the same rebellious natives. Consequently Spain is not tumbling over her self with eagerness to help her neighbor now that the little Mohammedan muckers have turned their bean blowers in the opposite direction...
Feitelson-Newking. These two artists played marbles together, went to Art School together, married, left the U. S. for Paris, there joined a group which has turned from Cubism, Imagism, Analysm, back to the vibrant humanity of the Renaissance. In the Autumn Salon in Paris, this group routed their loud rivals. Much was murmured about latter-day Renaissance. Encouraged, Feitelson, Newking, brought to the U. S. their pictures, which cleverly reproduce an old and gracious tradition...
...defeat of the bill means that no parliamentary action can be taken until autumn, owing to an intervening election ; but the Olympic Committee expressed confidence that it would be able, at the Olympic Congress at Prague, to be held May 25, to show guarantees of the Netherlands' ability to finance the Games...
...which will decrease the U. S. tendency to draw gold from England. In any case, it is not unlikely that 1925 will see a further advance in the rate of the Bank of England, designed to check gold exports. Such an eventuality may not occur, however, until the critical autumn months, when the normally heavy British imports of U. S. cotton, wheat and other materials ordinarily turns the trade balance heavily in favor of the U. S., tending to cause gold withdrawals from London...
...Metabolism. In autumn and winter, the thyroid glands of pigeons enlarged and the pigeons' eggs were predominantly male. In spring and summer, small thyroids, female pigeons. One female, after hatching many clutches, actually turned male, sired a brood. (The significance of this research was that the thyroid principle, thyroxin, appeared to be more fundamentally connected with sex determination than the sex-cell chromosomes-Dr. Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Institute...