Word: brink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Formalcies. Prince and Princess unveiled a statue of John Ericsson west of the Lincoln Memorial at the river brink. It was a plaster model of what is to be. The President spoke, then the Prince. The Prince and Princess visited Mount Vernon, and laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington...
...Rain God-a limestone sinkhole 160 feet across and 150 feet deep-where virgins and warriors, decked with jade and golden bells, accompanied by balls of copal (aromatic resin), rubber and cotton goods, pottery, engraved golden disks, weapons, tiaras, brooches, mirrors, were flung as sacrifices from the high brink (TIME, Nov. 16, SCIENCE...
...well take place before that time. . . . In any case, if Turkey should attempt to seize the Mosul region of Irak, she would have to reckon not alone with England but with the League, whose decision she would thus have flouted. . . . The British taxpayer does not stand upon the brink of an enterprise likely to lead to great expense...
American students of French politics wondered if the times had indeed fallen so far out of joint that Clémenceau must turn back from the brink of the tomb to set France right. In a mood of whimsy, they recalled a few of the stray threads that tie up the life and personality of Clémenceau with the U. S. For example, the events of his long and incredibly active political career fall between two visits to the town of Stamford, Conn...
Ever M. Briand remained with-in call. When the crux of the bill, the 7½ billion franc inflation clause, was about to be put to vote and trembled on the brink of failure, he ascended the tribune again...