Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The rite of investiture with the gold and purple Garter was neatly performed next day by the Duke of Gloucester, just below the well-turned knee of the Son of Heaven. A few hours later the Order of the Chrysanthemum was bestowed upon Prince Henry?tit for tat?by the...
"We will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I...
Mr. Hearst accompanied his blows* with many a spellbinding flourish, gallant references to women, a few vivid phrases ("Cossack crew of enforcement officers," "bonehead Drys and bullhead Wets"). His conclusion was a concentrated attack upon the Jones Act, and this bit of advice from potent Publisher William Randolph Hearst:
The gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort...
Still undiscouraged, however, he con tinued to plan, to calculate, and last week his project at least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an...