Word: copings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand feet above Chicago, Jack Cope stepped out the cabin door of his airplane, counted 28 before he pulled the parachute cord, landed buoyantly among a golf foursome. In the 13½ seconds before the parachute opened he had fallen 3,400 feet, a new sheer drop record...
...same time, the nineteenth annual Freshman Red Book will make its appearance, on time, to be distributed to advance subscribers and sold to new ones at $4.50 per cope...
Since the Bulgarian city of Philippopolis had already suffered an earthquake, last fortnight (TIME, April 30), the Bulgarian Government of Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff was fully aroused, last week, and proceeded by drastic means to cope with the additional disasters as they occurred...
...Federal Farm Board, composed of the Secretary of Agriculture and a member from each of the twelve U. S. Land Bank districts, appointed by the President. This Board was to administer the loan fund and help co-operative marketing associations to cope with surplus crops...
...Vingt-et-un. The account of his first night's gaming is the high point of the narrative. Willie is not an inveterate gambler, in fact he is naive to the point of ignorance. Temperamentally he is a graceful loser, but fundamentally he is at a loss to cope with the situation. From the general nature of Schnitzler's work, the tremendous coincidence of Fate at the end, was hardly to be expected. One looked for a more realistic, if less dramatic ending. The chief characteristic of the book is the manner in which it sustains the interest even through...