Word: filed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requirement. Students gather for this purpose three times a week in nightly seminars, where the daily work, which is the major determinant of the grades in the course, is done to the satisfaction of Oriental section-men. Most of the students not concentrating in the department have a complete file of the corrected problems worked out by less fortunate undergraduates of the previous year...
Despite disagreement and meagre proof of responsibility, the Los Angeles-San Francisco Navigation Co., owners of the San Juan, were quick to file two suits against Standard Oil Co. of California, totaling $1,800,000. Their charge: "Excessive rate of speed in a fog, without keeping the proper lookout or sounding the proper fog signal...
MURDER AT BRATTOX GRANGE-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). When Sir Hector Davidson was found dead with a metal file driven through his heart, only one person was seriously suspected, Guy Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy summoned, found sufficient circumstantial evidence to make the prosecution think it had a clear case. However, by calmly assuming the guilt, Guy was able, on a technicality, to go free. Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs...
...Chicago, Electrician John Joyce, 40, at work on a dynamo, asked his longtime friend, Electrician Steve Noble, 51, to hand him a file. Electrician Noble did not answer. He had touched a live connection, was dead. Electrician Joyce watched while the body was removed, then left the building, walked two blocks, fell dead...
...weeks ago alert Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ferreted out the incident. Remembering the "consular agreement" which provides that Italy may settle the estate of any Italian citizen who dies while living temporarily in the U. S. and vice versa, Signor Mussolini instructed Consul Emanuele Grazzi at New York to file claim for the Comincio savings...