Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst's editors took care to point out that the Hearst modification contest had attracted more than three times the number of entries which were submitted last autumn in William Crapo Durant's enforcement contest for the same size prize...
...Last Autumn when Mrs. Peterkin announced a book called Scarlet Sister Mary, librarians throughout South Carolina ordered copies as a matter of course. They were a little taken aback to read the publisher's blurb that this was "the story of the harlot of Blue Brook Plantation.'' But since there are black harlots on some plantations, and everyone knows it, most South Carolina librarians read the book anyway and put it on the shelves...
Porto Ricans, elated at getting a President's son to govern them, waited anxiously for him to get through hunting and help them obtain the full measure of cash (six millions) voted them by Congress but not yet paid out, as relief after last autumn's hurricane...
Beginning next week and lasting all summer and autumn will be an open season for the publication and republication of Edison biography, anecdotes, photographs. Again and again will be told the U. S. folk-legend of the newsboy, born in Milan, Ohio, who built a great fame out of such invisibilities as electrical impulses, sound waves, ether vibrations...
...office. No public outcry followed. A favored group, through special fire regulations, controlled the sale of tank trucks for gasoline distribution in the city. Even the charge that this monopoly had chiseled $2,500,000 from the public left the voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME, Dec. 24). His murderer still remains unapprehended. Most New Yorkers have heard that the "inside story" of this crime involves so high a Tammany official that the Walker administration had to switch Police Commissioners, as a sop, to divert popular attention from the unpleasant subject by a great display...