Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King has been pleased by letters patent under the great seal of the realm, bearing the date of the 27th of May, 1937, to declare that the Duke of Windsor shall, notwithstanding his instrument of abdication executed on the 10th day of December, 1936, and His Majesty's Declaration of the Abdication Act of 1936, whereby effect was given to the said instrument, be entitled to hold and enjoy for himself only the title, style or attribute of Royal Highness, so however that his wife and descendants, if any, shall not hold said title, style or attribute...
...world hailed this as a great triumph of French civilization. The Tuaregs settled down, but for two years practically no rain fell. This winter the rain failed again. The goats and cattle died, the wells dried up, the date palms withered. The 240,000 Blue People were starving to death and with them 1,300,000 neighboring Berbers. As many as 200,000 actually died. Folding their tents, loading their mangy camels, 1,000,000 of them started a grim, slow march north toward the Atlas and the more fertile lands beyond...
...Socialist Norman Thomas, visiting Valencia, heard only one shot fired during several hours at the Teruel front trenches. But off the sea just before one dawn came a droning V of Rightist planes. Ninety bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed...
...teaching innovation is certainly no modernization or spring cleaning of the Law school. The school has always maintained up-to-date methods and material. Neither is this step in imitation of the Yale Law School, which seems to emphasize Business Organization and to permit specialization in the second year. In short, these changes mark no desertion of the venerable Harvard law tradition, which for many years has made the school the leading institution of its kind in the country...
Highlight of the evening came when a representative of the John Reed Society, collecting funds for the Loyalists, urged the audience of 700 to "skip a date for democracy." He collected...