Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris correspondents for American dailies proclaim this the final week of the Reparation conference. If the experiences of the past four months mean anything there is good reason to believe that the correspondents are wrong...
...Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience prostrated themselves in the dust...
...intimated in Minneapolis in April, before the awards were announced, that his Committee had voted the novel prize to John Rathbone Oliver's Victim and Victor. The advisory board, whose decision is final, had gone over this vote in selecting Scarlet Sister Mary. No criticism came from Dr. Burton of the decision...
...Sinclair closed last week at 38). The employes' stock plan, approved at last week's annual corporation meeting, set aside 225,000 shares of common stock, 75,000 shares of which are offered during the present year. Another 75,000 will be offered next year and the final 75,000 in 1931. These future shares will be priced at 10% less than the average Stock Exchange price for the last three months of the year preceding the offer...
...together from the Perkins Institute and pulled down to the bottom of the half mile stretch which is above the Newell Boathouse. The oarsmen kept up a steady beat of about 28 for the first two miles and raised it gradually to sprinting finish during most of the final half mile. The row took about 15 minutes and the first eight was about three quarters of a length ahead at the finish with P. H. Watts '31 rowing a slightly higher beat than Harrison of the Jayvees...