Word: corde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn last week. Despite the worst storm in years a silent nervous crowd waited patiently by the palace gates. In the city sleepless radio announcers stood by their microphones. A watchman in Tokyo's chief fire station was ready with hand on the siren cord. At 6:15, just as the full force of the storm broke against the palace walls, lights suddenly appeared. A uniformed aid scurried from a side door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born...
Paper. If the army of woodsmen led by mighty Paul Bunyan invaded Canada to chop down 80,000,000 cords of pulpwood, they would take so long that by the time the wood was pressed into pulp and paper new forests would have sprung up. For this reason three Canadian pulp and paper companies which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money...
...last the perfect automobile." It is not built for speed, cannot perform the impossible. But it will claim to be a man-made machine with many exclusive advantages. It will be "first production car of its kind."* So said Auburn Automobile Co., in advance notice of its Cord car, named after its President Errett Lobban Cord, to be priced between the Auburn ($995 to $2,095) and the Dusenberg ($8,500 chassis...
Eventually it was in the maize field that peasant searchers found Baroness Irma Molnar, strangled by a heavy silken cord. Tied to one of the tassels was a crisp card, on which was written in what some thought feminine script...
Among the delegates moved a man whose face is full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...