Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...
...soon friends will carry him down a flower-strewn path-to the White House, past it and, again, as five years before, over the green slopes beyond to Arlington...
...North Carolina local statesmen insist that the government should work at a process of recovering potassium from feldspar, a hard, glass-like composite of potassium salts with other minerals (aluminum and silicon). There are great beds of it in the green sands of New Jersey, the Cartersville slates of Georgia, and the leucite rocks of Wyoming. But the present cost of processing feldspar is far more than $40 a ton, the gage for fertilizer potassium...
...Turnesa, waiting beside the green for Jones's club to swing down, the strain was quite as great as it would have been if, in match play, he had been taking stroke for stroke with Jones. It had been a strange tournament. Most of the scores were posted in the club house, but anyone might still win it-even Jones. Turnesa had the likeliest chance. His 294 led the field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course...
...week, following appropriately the brilliant pageant of the Eucharistic Congress, church princes, prelates, priests participated in the medieval liturgy of consecration. Seven o'clock in the morning saw 8,000 reverent worshipers on Lindell Boulevard gazing awe-struck at the Cathedral's granite walls, at its glistening green dome. The massive doors swung open. Came forth in stately procession acolytes, priests, deacons, followed by Archbishop Glennon wearing a white cope and carrying the episcopal crozier. Thrice this holy array rounded the Cathedral. Thrice the Archbishop stopped to knock at the church door. The third time it opened...