Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibson was downcast, his pleasant homely face, with its wide humorous mouth succeeded in diplomatically concealing his feelings. He has been attending arms conferences for the last four years. First it was the 1925 "Traffic-in-Arms" conference, then the 1926-27 preparatory arms commission and finally the ill-starred 1927 conference on naval armaments, of which he was chairman. He has heard all the polite haggling of open and closed diplomacy. He has seen admirals and generals mix a sour brew of national honor, strategy and armament statistics. And he sums his observations thus...
...time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
...Four Frenchmen are correctly addressed as "M. le President": The President of France The President of the Cabinet The President of the Senate The President of the Chamber...
...hours after her death last week. Dr. Frederic Flinn, Columbia University radium poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...
...heard that there were blood tests to decide putative paternality. Her information was imperfect. There are four kinds of human blood, called in medicine Groups I, II, III, IV. Only if a child's blood differs from that of both its parents', is it probable that the man is not the father, and possible that the woman is not the mother. Resemblances cannot be conclusive...