Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard, thankless job. . . . There are some who will count me just another 'out' in the game; others will say 'she made a sacrifice hit.' ... As President Roosevelt said: 'Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords...
...Count Giovanni Elia, Fascist, declared that even if the fleets of the U. S. and Great Britain should be made absolutely equal "there would still remain the vastly superior industrial power and unassailable geographical position of the United States...
Last week the proposition was put to vote. It passed by the whelming count of 230 to 30, with 50 not voting through abstention or absence. Many of Dr. Weizmann's anticipated opponents-orthodox Zionists, Laborite Zionists, radical Zionists-submerged their separate complaints to favor the central issue...
Shortly after noon Germany time, 55 hours after she left Lakehurst, the Graf Zeppelin landed. A multitudinous crowd on the ground, fences, poles, roofs and steeples screamed joyously. Passengers debarked quickly. Count Albrecht Montgelas carried a fat bundle. It contained 52 ears of golden bantam corn, bon voyage gift of Mrs. William Crapo Durant. He fed them to his comrades that evening...
...last fortnight's fiasco in Detroit when the welterweight (147 lb.) championship changed hands. In the second round Challenger Jackie Fields (1924 Olympic amateur featherweight winner) jarred the big jaw and midsection of Champion Joe Dundee, who lurched to his hands and knees. He was scarcely up at the count of "nine!" when the fast Fields deposited him again on the canvas. Dundee crawled across the ring. Then he reared swiftly and, as Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made him champion. In his dressing room Fields...