Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part and then they helped me with the clearing. A few minutes later I was again pushing on over the desert...
...conversation was part of the testimony of Mr. McCray in the criminal trial of Governor Ed Jackson in Indianapolis last week. The prosecution by the State was in the hands of able William H. Remy (TIME, Feb. 20), whom Mr. McCray had appointed in 1923. It looked like a clear-cut bribe conspiracy, out of which it would be difficult for Governor Jackson to squirm. But he did get out of it, easily, quietly. His lawyers pointed out that, under Indiana's statute of limitations, no man can be indicted for a bribery crime more than two years after...
...statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that...
...comfortable of conscience, who can always get and has often accepted a political base on balls in Indiana, last week announced his Presidential candidacy. As he went to bat he made all the motions of a player who is going to knock it into the Presidential bleachers, making perfectly clear he was not just a Favorite...
...suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts in a timely reappearance. He must go off to war immediately, but first he has time to stand on the station platform while a camera makes it clear that the world...