Word: dates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen, a shadow flickered?a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door...
...this sum about $160,000,000 was used from a loan of $200,000,000 raised by international subscription. Of the remaining $90,000,000, half was paid in February; the second half is due on Sept. 1 next. But, under the Plan, Mr. Gilbert has received to date $155,000,000, or 50% more than was necessary...
...Prince is a Protestant and the Princess a Catholic. There were obviously other reasons. The intervention on behalf of the lovers by Princess Yolanda, who is happily married to Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, allegedly overcame their Majesties' scruples and the marriage is to take place. The date was not mentioned...
...unprecedented consumption of gasoline. On May 1, 1925, stocks of gasoline in the U. S. were 1,561,002,024 gallons-a goodly amount still, although 64,867,000 gallons less than on May 1, 1924. Never since 1920 have gasoline stocks been smaller than they were the same date a year earlier...
Retorted Wright: "The earliest date on which it can be claimed that the Langley machine was capable of sustained flight is the date on which the defects which prevented its free flight in 1903 were remedied. That date has not yet arrived...