Word: bound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark night 26 miles off New York and the 63 ton motorship Shawnee, bound from Bermuda to Halifax in ballast, plowed through the seas. The Canadian ensign flew at her masthead; all lights were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been...
...document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the collection of Charles Sumner...
...hundred thousand volumes, chiefly monographs and bound periodicals, provide an excellent working library for the student of present-day business or the investigator into business history. For the use of the former, provision is made--especially in the Baker Room of the Library--for the acquisition of the better sources of current information on finance, commodity movement, and the like, whether such material be of governmental or private origin. The Library believes its primary obligation that of creating and maintaining this assembly of reference data on contemporary business activity...
...Aristide Briand of France. Since League member states are technically not bound by any treaty to which they have adhered until a copy is registered with the League, the Pact of Paris did not become legally effective among most of its signatories until last week, despite its impressive promulgation at Washington by President Hoover (TIME, June...
Georges Carpentier, French onetime fisticuffer, lately cinemactor, traded a portion of ear for a "new" nose. He explained: "When some 200 prize-ring opponents work on your beak, why the old beezer is bound to deteriorate to a point of disadvantage in the pictures...