Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Economic Conference sponsored by the League of Nations at Geneva (TIME, May 16) moved rapidly last week toward completing the reports of its three committees (Industry, Commerce, Agriculture), and prepared for a final plenary session at which the reports will be presented, read...
...bashful disposition in the heat of contact with her dynamic mother. They were more than usually devoted, and sometimes showed their affection in fierce but not violent quarrels. The death of her fiance, the late Duke of Clarence, and death of her mother perhaps gave to Queen Mary that final trial of spirit which renders her understanding and sympathy with human suffering so entirely queenly...
...there is any hope at all, of finding the final text of such Latin authorities as Livy and Varro, such hopes rest in Herculaneum alone. Pompeii will never give us any original documents, for the lava which buried it was porous and permitted the infiltration of water. This destroyed any papyri which may have existed. The volcanic substance which flowed over Herculaneum became so solidified that it may have preserved some few libraries...
...Start. Late one evening last week Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh studied weather reports and decided that the elements were propitious for a flight from New York to Paris. He took a two-hour sleep, then busied himself with final preparations at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Four sandwiches, two canteens of water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from...
...minutes every morning music will charm the ears of distracted students about to set foot upon the stormy path of final examinations, it was learned last night. On each week-day morning during the two weeks of the final examination period, an organ recital similar to the ones given last year will be given in Appleton Chapel...