Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of time. The Russians repudiated their debts and it is obvious that no new credits will be forthcoming until the world is convinced that the Soviet Government won't repudiate them also . . . I can say that . . . the Soviet Government will find it hard to get any fair-sized loan today...
...little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
...Seip Mound, regular in shape* (240 by 160 by 28 ft. high), is a large one and when fair weather permits further excavations next summer, should yield treasures comparable to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in archaeological interest. The chief importance of last week's discoveries: 1) Cloths had never before been found in Mound Builder tombs; 2) the absence of weapons near the skeletons bore out the theory that the Mound Builder tombs; 2) the abgarded as ancestors of the Indians, were peaceable folk, more devoted to arts than...
...Fall of Eve. Another heavily heralded comedy stumbled in the first act and was stimulated to complete the evening with fair effect only by the unique and astonishing talent of Ruth Gordon...
From such a second-rate and cheap conception little of merit could survive. There were various bright lines and a fair amount of acting. People will go to see Ruth Gordon rather than The Fall...