Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Root thought for a moment? Was it quite fair to turn the casual phrase of the most ingenuous and beloved of dead Democrats into a slogan for a Republican candidate? . . . "and replied, 'Senator Wadsworth of New York'. ... I think that is a general opinion among those who know best...
...That the United States will pay a fair share of the expenses of the Court, as determined and appropriated from time to time by the Congress of the United States...
...hundred and fifty thousand buyers and the agents of 10,000 dealers in everything from caviar to coke foregathered at Leipzig during the week for that city's 700th annual fair. From the U. S. alone came 1,500 buyers. At Leipzig they mingled with oleaginous Armenian lace vendors, stalwart Norwegian goat cheese merchants, shrewd Jugoslavian toy whittlers. When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year...
While the narrow streets and peaked-roofed buildings of Old Leipzig were crammed all week with fair goods, there was space and leisure in the sumptuous modern quarter for the pulse of cosmopolitan life that beats nowhere more strongly than in Leipzig at fair time. It is well said that "Leipzig is the only German city"- the only city in which Germans lay aside their individual nationalities as Prussians, Hessians, Bavarians, Saxons, Swabians or what...
...from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...