Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hague Settlement. Two days more were needed to whip the Midnight agreement into formal shape. A third day saw it signed by all the delegations at a final plenary session, after which the Conference contentedly adjourned. Basically the settlement thus reached is twofold financial and political...
...until 2:15 p. m. did Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio scrawl his signature for the 138th time onto the final document giving the very last parcel of Tacna to Peru...
After the blackening destruction that followed the blaze in Patrick O'Leary's barn at 137 De Koven St. on the night of Oct. 8, 1871, the city convulsed in agony, caught its breath. It shook its head, came up for a final, triumphant round. Among its innovators were: Cyrus McCormick and his reaper; George Pullman and his "palace car"; Pinkerton and his sleuths; Bross and his Tribune; Frances Willard and her "praying women"; Brunswick, Balke and their billiard table; Rand McNally and his maps; Crane and his valves; Kimball and his pianos; Kuppenheimer and his clothes...
...tenth and final mile, strong, blonde Miss Norelius led Miss Tower by 300 yards. She won $10,000, Miss Tower $3,000-their share of $15,000 prize money supplied by William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum man, who got the idea of swimming marathons two years ago and, with $25,000 prize money, induced 150 competitors to try swimming the 20 miles from Santa Catalina Island across San Pedro Channel to the California coast (TIME...
...occasion. At the theatre, garbed in a belted shooting jacket which he said had been made in 1904 and in what one observer called "an indescribably peaked Tartar cap," Shaw greeted his guests with gusto and much pleased tugging at his flaring, white beard. He left, however, before the final curtain...