Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognized) cry: "Hey, George, those two guys are stealing my gin." Drawing his revolver, determined to fire into the air, the police-man shot one of the hijackers through the head, found 125 bottles of gin in four abandoned parcels. Police inspectors investigated, declared that the patrolman had done his duty...
Seemingly considering that he had done a good week's work in obtaining the lukewarm informal acquiescence of 27 nations. Prime Minister Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel on the coast of Normandy for a brief vacation. "I shall probably take a short sea trip in a very small yacht," he said, "the smaller the better, for the sea was my first love...
...Work Done by the League Assembly during the week included...
...poured out of the tube, passed over a wire heated to incandescence. A small mirror reflected a beam of light on a screen. As the treated hydrogen struck the glowing wire it interfered with the light and caused the mirror beam to move in one direction. That done, Dr. Bonhoeffer passed untreated hydrogen over the same wire. The mirror beam moved differently. That was proof that he had two different kinds of hydrogen, which he called orthohydrogen and parahydrogen...
...interlude of innocuous kissing in dark alcoves, light tippling in sequestered nooks and lavatories, and a ceaseless round of hot-and-bothersome dancing, this play will be a surprise. To men of Williams College it may even be shocking. For at the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass...