Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, Aug. 2, p. 6, ARMY AND NAVY, "The Naval Committee last week went through the usual formality of investigating the disaster after it had happened." Check up on the word "Committee." Except for purely social functions committees are rarely appointed in the Navy...
...have been different; but everybody knew that the World's partisanship now and then ran away a bit with its common sense. Further perusal showed the analogies to be matters of fact-"seventh in area," "wealth $3,285 per capita," "eighth in rank as a coal producer. . . ." Where except in reference books, such as the Britannica, did the World expect Mr. Coolidge to obtain statistics if he insisted upon using them in his Colorado semicentennial address...
...Volstead Act will apply in the Canal Zone except as to liquor in transit, under seal, through the Zone or between two points within Panama...
...soon was known for what he was-efficient, profoundly informed, hard-working legislator, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, co-author of Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, later Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. This year he has been conspicuous as staunch backer of the Coolidge Administration on every issue except farm relief. But Iowa perhaps prefers radicals. Mr. Cummins was growing old and peaceful, so Smith Wildman Brookhart was chosen to succeed him as Republican Senatorial candidate this year. A faint flicker of the joys of old age must have come to Senator Cummins when he read the news...
...skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except an orgy of chopping...