Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geoff Chaucer's final...
...Island defense weakened and the game was lost and won. McKenzie, behind the bat, foolishly tried to catch McGrath as he went down and threw the ball into centerfield, Nugent scoring. And then to complete the damage, the centerfielder heaved past third and McGrath trotted in with Harvard's final fally. HARVARD a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Nugent, 2b. 3 2 1 3 0 0 McGrath, s.s. 3 2 2 3 0 3 Ticknor, c.f. 5 0 0 3 0 1 Donaghy, 3b. 3 0 1 3 4 0 Prior, 1b. 2 0 0 3 0 1 Batchelder...
Peace is a comparative term in Mexico. Last week occurred a battle between Federal troops and Catholic rebels in the town of Mexticac%#225;n, Jalisco. Some 50 rebels were killed, 50 more wounded. Nevertheless, President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed...
...coach, pride of the Peking-Hankow Railway, built of hand carved teakwood, fitted with solid silver doors, window frames, light fixtures, its walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double thickness. Most important of all, there was in final readiness the last bit of pavement on the Chung Shan Chi Nien-great straight memorial road, eight miles long, 140 feet wide, leading from Nanking to Dr. Sun's new mausoleum. Therefore, China's most exalted morticians and highway contractors rested last week from their labors. Everything...
...intimate biographer there is an embarrassment of riches in Francis Joseph's circle?the unhappy Empress, proud and beautiful, stabbed by an anarchist; Archduke Max, strangely Emperor of Mexico; Archduke John Salvator who disappeared into the Pacific; the Crown Prince Rudolf mysteriously and horribly a suicide; and finally the next heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, fatefully killed at Serajevo. But these dramatics are insignificant facts in Author Redlich's account of the final struggle between time-honored legitimacy and modern nationalism?Francis Joseph granting his people universal suffrage and a parliament, and then stultifying the gesture by reserving his absolute power...