Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting by her bedside holding her hand, when she fell asleep. Afraid that if he moved she would be awakened, the King remained in the same position for several hours. Another time the King said with deep feeling, 'If anything were to happen to the Queen I should die...
...Chiang totaled up the kill-500 men, 2,000, then 5,000 as the pace of slaughter quickened; finally 7,000 slaughtered Chinese butchered in four days. As the Generalissimo's high-minded Nanking government pointed out. "the number of the slain is far less than those who die in a single provincial famine. There is only one way of dealing with Communists...
...print an answer to the objections voiced by the Dean. It is an answer which is final and conclusive because it is based on conditions as they exist at Harvard, where slightly more than half of the college rooms are equipped with telephones. All more arguments wither and die in the face of contradictory facts...
...Trees," rejecting an old flame's advances even though her worthless husband is busy dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing...
...years Karl August Bickel has been gathering and selling news, for twelve of those years as the able, ubiquitous president of United Press. Newsgathering is a tough job and Karl Bickel was determined not to die in harness. Said he once: "This is a young man's business. No man over 50 has the right to be the active head of a press association." Last year he began to ail and last week, at the age of 53, he resigned the U. P.'s presidency...