Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent...
Manhattan reporters went down to the imposing Cunard Building in lower Broadway last week to have a look at the elder and distinguished statesman brother of famed onetime Australian tennis champion Norman Brookes.
Within two minutes Businessman' Brookes got briskly down to cases. It was time for people to realize, he said, that Australia will not submit to encroachment of a much heavier U. S. tariff on her wool and meats without raising a customs wall of her own against U. S. motor...
Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General...
"The project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering...