Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wishing to pass the Red Cross Life Saving Test can register for the trials, beginning today. The tests will be given on Mondays and Fridays from three to four o'clock, beginning next Monday, March 18, and lasting through the remainder of the semester...
...presidency with a farewell speech in which he swung his arms, shot his cuffs and shouted that he took back nothing he had said about the Senate rules. This time it was Charles Curtis and his little vice presidential speech that the Dawesian diatribe dwarfed. But where embarrassment was four years ago, there was only laughter this time. It was a self-burlesque, a Dawesian jape...
...Brown, whose father was once Toledo postmaster, put aside a newspaper career to become a lawyer. The law led to politics. Mr. Brown climbed from ward captain to county boss. In 1912 he went a-maying with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
...Adams family has sailed far and famously in U. S. history. Mr. Adams's father was John Quincy, four times defeated Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Governor. Mr. Adams's uncles were Charles Francis Jr., colonel of a Negro cavalry regiment in the Civil War and onetime president of the Union Pacific R. R., and Henry, autobiographer of The Education of Henry Adams. Mr. Adams's grandfather was Charles Francis, U. S. envoy to England during the Civil War. His great-grandfather was John Quincy, sixth U. S. President and, earlier, minister to The Hague and to Berlin...
...simpler, however, to match up the blood of individuals than the many mixed bloods of a populous nation. In attempting to execute the orders of Congress, a large corps of census experts, statisticians and genealogists have wrestled for four years with the problem of tracing back for 140 years the ancestry of 120,000 people. The chief results so far have been expert disagreements and rancorous race disputes...