Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperity, morality and Divine Providence, President Coolidge's favorite speech-making topic is naval disarmament. Last week he did not make a speech, but he despatched to Congress and to Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy a plan of naval disarmament. It was received as the most statesmanly document of his administration. He suggested...
...baseball dictates that club owners must submit contracts to unsigned players before Feb. 15 in order to retain their services. So last week the New York American League management forwarded a contract to George H. ("Babe") Ruth, basking temporarily in the Klieg-light of Hollywood. Mr. Ruth examined the document, laughed. These club owners will have their jokes. They had sent him a contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small fraction...
...limit to freedom of the will!" raged Student Slovo-chotov, "I am prepared to do anything at any time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote...
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin produced some curt prose worthy of his mighty father: "This document [Mr. Kellogg's Bolshevist evidence] is the flimsiest sort of propaganda. If it had emanated from any other source than the Secretary of State I venture the assertion that no reputable editor in the United States would have authorized its publication. It would have gone not to the composing room, but to the waste basket...
...recently in your department devoted to letters from readers as to my name and present venue, I am enclosing you separately copy of my Annual Report on this institution which may help to establish the facts, and also will, I am sure, prove interesting to you as a penological document...