Word: footings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They have reeds, and bellows, just like a common house-organ. They are encased, though, in a body similar to, but very much smaller than, the old-fashioned "square" piano. There are two treadles but they are not like the treadles of the organ, being rods run from the foot to the upright rod that connects with the bellows. The right foot is used to pump air; the left is used to increase the sound...
...children. To recover past expense and to assure his daughter of future care, Plumber McLaughlin brought suit. Supreme Court Justice James Church Cropsey found against the Audley Clarke Co. in the sum of $15,000. But the McLaughlins will get not a cent. Each year henceforth Plumber McLaughlin will foot the bill for $150? cost of a new artificial leg?and pay the expenses incident to the trimming of the bone...
...Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with the aid of a burning coconut shell and hot candle grease...
Even in 1850 there was anti-railroad legislation, for at the foot of the timetable is a notice. "At the request of Superintendent Alcohol, there will be a business meeting, by and by, of the stockholders and conductors of the road, to hear a report concerning liabilities under the Higher...
Following this so excellent example, the modern world is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...