Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vessels, insisting only that the latter should be careful. So there, apparently, rested the controversy between the Navy and the Treasury Department, in whose rum-chasing service the Paulding was functioning at the crash. And there, unless Congress or the President reopens the subject, ended the S-4 disaster-except as a legend in the Navy, a leaden memory in line of duty...
...high contracting parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts, of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means...
...believe in anything else but free trade all round. I don't know what a tariff means, except that it means giving one crowd an advantage over another. Free trade is competition, and nothing can get large enough if you won't have competition...
...bright eyed, tousled girl-child was seen to clamber up an iron lamp post in the Square of Julius Caesar at Milan last week. The King, her king was coming, and she wanted to see. Round about and beneath her surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already...
...Canadians. And in a furious game in which, when the referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank Boucher stabbed twice through the Maroon defense. No team representing an American city has won an important hockey trophy since Seattle took the Stanley Cup title in 1917. All the players on the Rangers are Canadians...