Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final U. S. and Mexican notes both intimated politely that the governments concerned have said all there is to say on the subject. Secretary Kellogg's last note, in fact, read like the first half of an "ultimatum" but was not completed by the specific threats popularly associated with such a document. A period of vexful waiting loomed...
...Only God," wrote Miss Hurst in final desperation, "and Mrs. Hall probably know what is in her innermost soul...
There had been 20 hours of final test-flying at Hampton Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...
...next day we rode a trail which climbs to a gap at the southern end of Langley ridge called Army Pass, and so on to the head of Rock Creek, a tributary of the Kern River, which itself finally reaches the San Joaquin valley at Bakersfield. Emerging into the pass, we came out on a broad granite plateau sloping gently west, an abrupt change from the tremendous cliffs skirted by the trail coming up from the east, and soon descended to first water and timber line, following Rock Creek down to 9,500 feet, three miles above its final plunge...
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