Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second place, the Indians are not fundamentally an honest people. If Great Britain really desires to keep India, she must keep a firm rule. They cannot govern themselves...
...Knock it out of the lot, Eddie!" Cobb may have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations to comply with the arbiter's command. He walked slowly to the players' bench. He drew a glass of ice cold water; drank it with time out between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation...
...George Eastman (kodaks) at Rochester, N. Y.: "It is with great pride and great joy that I have just signed the agreement which associates my name with yours." He referred to last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...
...inspiring Andante Cantabile of Tschaikowsky with a feeling they had seldom known before. Below them in a flower-banked casket, their director lay dead. He, Walter Henry Rothwell, had died of apoplexy, seated at the wheel of his automobile. Through eight seasons he had guided their destinies with a firm hand...
...Henry Hornblower, of the firm of Hornblower and Weeks is to make the presentation on behalf of the donors of the bridge. President Lowell will then deliver the structure to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the speech of acceptance will be made by Governor Alvin T. Fuller...