Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...past week in Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.) began by a flat rejection by the French and Spanish of Abd-el-Krim's demand that peace negotiations must be preceded by unqualified recognition of the Riff area as an independent and sovereign State...
...unrest in Eastern China, stirred up by the Shanghai riots (TIME, June 15 et seq.), again broke out with violence and threats at several points...
...Tennessee, where John Thomas Scopes recently filled the heavens by teaching Evolution (TIME, May 18 et seq.), came the news that Dayton's High School is to have one Raleigh E. Valentine Reece, reporter on The Nashville Tennessseean, as a teacher in the place of the aforesaid John Thomas Scopes, ousted...
With Arctic winter and its impossible flying weather only a fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...