Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities of Mexico City were vexed by this baptismal race against time. Then Dr. Gastelum, of the civic Sanitary Department conceived an idea. Next day he took a long, sharp hypodermic needle, fitted it to a syringe full of vaccine, stood at the cathedral door guarded by a lolling troop of soldiers...
...Help us! Nothing justifies the uneasiness of our population. Never have we had so few unemployed. Antwerp has recovered full activity. Our crops are bountiful. . . . The budget is balanced, thanks to economy, and no new taxes will be needed on this score. In near future security can be restored...
...morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss France-Harar's colleague, one Surgeon Orthman, vouched for her story, adding that he had seen three such executions within the year, in each case upon...
...pale at the end of the match as she had been at the beginning. Let the people in the stands behave like maniacs. What did she care? At 17, very quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time for her to go to college - the University of California. In her first year she was an honor student and won a scholarship for "excellence in all studies," but she managed to play tennis three times a week, summer and winter. She specialized...
...whom he met and where he dined; a witticism dropped in a taxicab to an Associated Press reporter was cabled to all the English-speaking world; last week the wires crepitated with the announcement that he had started for Poland to be rude to Marshal Pilsudski. And suddenly a full page advertisement in the leading papers throughout the U. S. heralded the LETTERS OF A SELF MADE DIPLOMAT TO HIS PRESIDENT. A Collection of the Intimate Papers and Letters That is Changing Hands during these Perilous Times of Peace between Our President and his Ambassador - Without...