Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Past the finish line the packets steamed, engines wide open, passengers hullaba-looing. Spectators on the banks were still disputing the result when the ships, carried far upstream by their momentum, returned. The judges declared the Tom Greene had won by a few feet, repeating the performance of its sister...
A few hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to...
* Fortnight ago Director William H. Allen of the New York Institute of Public Service petitioned New York's Governor Roosevelt to remove Mayor Walker from office on the ground of incompetency. Playfully temporized the Governor: "I have received so many letters in the last few days asking for the...
So scarce grew water throughout the English midlands that numerous water-hogging textile mills were forced to shut down for one week provisionally. In London, the Ministry of Health, after advising municipalities to ration their water with "rigid economy," concluded cryptically: "Statistics appear to show that the rainfall in England...
Within a few minutes after the booklet was out, last week, shares of the British Royal Mail slumped from 55 to 45-representing an aggregate loss of something like $15,000,000 to thousands of small investors. Things looked all the blacker because for several months there has been a...