Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Century Dutch Queen at the same time. Queen Emma, unmoved, strode through the galleries for four and a half hours more. She at no time seemed fatigued or in need of sitting down. At dusk she was still chatty and firm on her feet as she boarded her train back to The Hague. The entire trip took 28 hours...
...Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, New York University, Ohio State, Duke, the University of Oklahoma, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State College and Wesleyan University. The last six were winners in regional competition. After Dartmouth, New York University sang best, then Ohio State. Victorious a third year in succession, the Dartmouth gleemen took back to Hanover a silver cup given-for-keeps by Manhattan's University Glee Club...
...Over the side plunged six-year-old Joan in its wake, swam faster and faster from the schooner, while her father bellowed orders, and the mate lowered the dinghy. The oarsmen finally caught her, but not before she had captured the anemone and thrust it in her overalls pocket. Back on board, she was more distressed by her dead sea-horse than by the rope-end tanning administered by the captain. Mathematics she learned "helping" her father work out his navigation problems. Reading she learned from an intermittent encyclopedia and the Bible. Not the least of her laboratory experiments...
...sold his patent-rights in a bath-tub enamelling process. He raised $100,000. His first factory was a barn in his back yard; his first workman...