Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cautious, exact and particular." In Tyler's time there were no public defaulters, no corrupt army contracts, and nothing resembling the present oil scandals.. Instead of building up a colossal debt like Lincoln, Tyler reduced the one that came to him, and administered the government on one fourth less expense than his predecessor, Van Buren...
...Repassed over the President's veto, by 319 to 42 and 319 to 46, two House postal-pay bills, benefiting nightworkers and fourth-class postmasters; sent the bills to the Senate. (President Coolidge's objections had been, that night-working postal employes received ample raises in 1926; that fourth-class postmasters mostly keep stores or do other private business, to the overhead of which their postal duties add nothing...
...single period of 24 hours was celebrated by Italians, last week, as War Declaration? Day, Colonial Day, and the Fourth Centenary of the birth of Duke Emanuele Filberto of Savoy, doughty progenitor of bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele...
...once removed of the late Tsar Nicholas II, is better known in Manhattan as rich Mrs. William B. Leeds. Three months ago she brought to the U. S. as her guest a famed & mysterious young woman, "Mme. Tchaikovsky" (TIME, Feb. 20), who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas the Last...
Scoring on this basis, Harvard won 93 to 117. Both first and second places went to the University team, while Yale entries took third, fourth, and fifth places. The next seven places, with the exception of the ninth went to Harvard contestants...