Word: az
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Most Rev. Pascual Díaz y Barreto, 59, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico since 1929, twice exiled, often arrested during the State's 20-year wrangle with the Church; of colitis; in Mexico City...
...game manufacturers, distributors and operators from all corners of the world were busy gathering for their annual convention at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. On display were 50 new varieties of bagatelle boards including one to resemble a map of Ethiopia with Haile Selassie's palace az high-score hole. To his confreres, Clinton S. Darling, secretary of the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers, expressed his confidence in a pastime which has already lasted twice as long as midget golf: "The industry has supported many thousands of factory workers in making these games and in allied industries...
...Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
...Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services of a Mexican Foreign Legion, which Soapy, for a good round sum, was to organize among the riff-raff of the border...