Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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†Col. Swope died in 1909 of potassium cyanide poisoning. A Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, who had married Col. Swope's niece, was convicted of the crime. Dr. Hyde was further accused of trying to do away with other members of his wife's family by infecting them...
The fat boy was 12-year-old Jack Linder who weighed 341 pounds. He was the most honored guest at the garden party given by Thomas M. Farley, political leader of the Fourteenth Assembly District. Mr. Farley's district is full of Jewish, Italian and Irish constituents. All of...
At Johannesburg and Cape Town, riots by native blacks accompanied the unfurling of the new flag. Misguided agents of the extreme pro-British faction, who wish to continue under the "Union Jack," had still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag...
Second, the Japanese Government is resolved that the Chinese Civil War shall not spread still further northward from Peking into Manchuria, now teeming with little brown colonists from the neighboring Islands of Japan. Therefore the Japanese General Staff, although exceedingly friendly to Chang Tso-lin, recently gave warning (TIME, May...
Inventor White, satisfied, took the machine back to his laboratory for further study. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, army aviator and flying instructor, his stern mistress is aerodynamics. Quietly, persistently he has worked to prove his theory that a bicycle, like a bird, can gain forward momentum...