Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would tire of it-but no. I'll forgive you anything you have done-or anything you may do, if you'll abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...
...night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...
...issue of TIME for Aug. 5, it is stated in the review of The Eater of Darkness that Dadaism was "born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916." This would give rise to the erroneous impression that Dada was a movement of French origin...
...Further Federal accommodations for prisoners cannot be any longer delayed. We will ask Congress to give us the necessary authority and appropriations to revise the system...
...boys assembled on the Edison lawn, talked of the test as they waited announcement of who had won. Various rumors spread. It was claimed that the judges were still debating after an all night session. It was suggested that Inventor Edison, disgusted with the results, had decided to give no award...