Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill having been introduced there was no debate. The judicial committee retired to an anteroom and inspected the bill for 45 minutes. While they were gone Signor Mussolini relaxed, chatted with his Ministers, smiled and nodded as the Deputies and gallery roared plaudits. When the Committee returned and reported favorably on the bill Premier Mussolini stalked to the ballot box. "FOR FASCISM!" he cried, and cast his vote. Three hundred and forty-one Fascists voted with him. The Giolittists cast against him twelve innocuous and well stage-managed votes. It is significant that one-time Premier Giolitti had the reputation...
...bare outline is sufficient for Author Bradford's purpose: born in 1809 (the same day as Abraham Lincoln), son of a prosperous doctor, he attended Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, gave up tentative plans for medicine and the clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent...
...American eleven after all is only an expression of opinion, and opinions differ. The Sun is an enterprising newspaper, but its selections represent only itself. The tendency to write up individuals and play down the team has gone far enough. We need to start current in the other direction. The "star system" of the stage ought not to be transported to the stadium...
...addition to the men who have already gone on to receive and handle this vast store of impedimenta, a second contingent of managers left last night to have the New Haven dressing room ready for occupancy when the team arrives. And after the game, when the players are celebrating the breaking of training, and the University as a whole is finding it hard to settle down, these managers will have to collect and bring back to camp all the remains...
Some day when I am gone...