Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Discussion of the Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 13), in which the famed formula of disarmament, arbitration and security was embodied. It was expected that the security issue will be dropped and that Britain will demand postponement of the entire problem until the autumn...
...days later, Karl left the country in an automobile and in the early autumn of the same year made his dramatic second visit, coming from Switzerland by airplane. Horthy on this occasion opposed Karl with armed force and even had the train in which he was traveling with his wife shelled. The second attempt, like the first, ended in failure and Horthy, to the great indignation of a large section of the public, had the ex-Emperor handed over to the British like a common prisoner...
...ever written by an American, and while she accepted invitations to lecture before various societies of scholars and laymen in England this spring. During the years in which she was writing her life of Keats, she wrote many poems; in fact, a collection of these will be published this autumn; and there are her well-known Yankee dialect sketches, one of which, in spite of its verse form, Edward J. O'Brien lists among the fine short stories of the year. These sketches will some day be collected in a volume. It was during this time, too, that...
...November has turned the leaves wan, may carry a begrimed ball for endless gains; even so, he shall not come to honor. For the little fellows and their supporters will murmur among themselves. "That guy, how does he get in?" they will demand of the spring sky, of the autumn clouds. The Massee School's headmaster, should he hear them, would doubtless reply: "Why, that boy is a special student." "Student, yeah," the little ones will savagely rejoin. "A ringer, that's what he is! A ringer...
...mural escarpment of carboniferous limestone, which reflects its blue and sombre aspect in the crystal waters at its base. Like many other spots, however, remarkable for their loveliness, the subtle messengers of death have chosen it for their abode, infusing the poison of their breath into the serenity of autumn, when the transparency of the air and the purity of the sky, together with the gorgeous scenery, present at first to the unconscious traveller sensations alone of health and enjoyment...