Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gabriele d'Anminzio, Italian poet-airman: "The Associated Press reported that I had 'given my all' to Italy. They quoted me as saying in a lengthy deed of gift: 'I offer all that remains of me to the Italian people...
...argument centers around the discovery of General Foch, who was at that time in temporary retirement. Clémenceau claimed the honor of appointing him as Chief of the French General Staff in 1917, but M. Painlevé asserts in his book that he alone did the good deed...
Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, outlined Mr. Nansen's career yesterday in an interview for the CRIMSON. "Mr. Nansen's first claim to fame arose through a deed 30 years ago, when he tried to reach the north pole by a new route. He believed that there was a warm current which carried the ice across the north pole, and he conceived the idea of building a special boat, which ice would not crush but which would be pushed on top of an ice floe. He intended to freeze the boat into...
...wheel of time rolled on and only an American ballad kept the memory of this dreadful deed green. Then a short time ago a clever reporter came upon a man registering at a hotel as E. Robinson Casey. With sudden inspiration he cried. "Why, did you do it?" "I couldn't help it," Mr. Casey replied in a dull and automatic tone, "the umpire called 'em wrong...
...Colonel Krastitch, Yugoslavian Military Attaché, being badly " beaten up " by three unidentified men. From Sofia, the Bulgarian Government telegraphed to the Yugoslavian Government at Belgrade its sincere regrets, stating that the deed had been executed by political scoundrels to embarrass the Government...