Word: fide
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lowden chose, in preference to directing the affairs of the Navy, to retire to his farm. It was a bona fide farm. He had not bought it in the first swift decline of farm prosperity with a shrewd eye to the political advantages which might accrue from being identified with a lively issue. He had bought his farm twenty-one years before this time--in 1899 and some years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making...
...widows between the ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant they passed out "ten bob" (10 shillings...
...further. The case is clear against the Nicaraguans and relations should immediately be broken off. But if any further indictment of Sandino's tactics is necessary, it need only be stated that he actually had the temerity to "carry his dead off the field". Among decent, bona fide rebels, it has always been the custom to leave the dead on the field, to be counted by the victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there were no dead, though...
Rumored Specifications. With what purported to be bona fide information, Detroit newspapers last week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...
...meeting authorized to act for the four universities concerned be requested to lodge with the honorary secretary of the Amateur Athletic Association of London, on some date prior to the above meeting, lists of the collected teams, together with certificates that each member of said team is a bona fide student and a bona fide amateur athlete