Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enclosed find my check for $10 for one years subscription to FORTUNE. If it's one half as good as TIME it will be worth the price...
Widows. The Ministry of Health (Parliamentary Secretary, Miss Lawrence) issued the text of an amendment to the Widows Pensions Act of 1925. If passed, the amendment will broaden the pension system to include an additional half-million widows. Complex, the measure teems with such provisos as that if a woman is between 55 and 70, and if her husband died before Jan. 1, 1926, then the lucky widow will receive ten shillings a week ($2.50) for the rest of her life...
...from Kabul's ancient brass saluting cannon died away than Afghans were telling each other hot news. Servants searching the hastily deserted palace of "Usurper" Habibullah had come upon a locked closet. Inside the closet were six smouldering corpses. Three were recognizable: Abdul Majif and Hayatullah, brother and half-brother of exiled Amanullah, and Mohammed Osman, one-time governor of Kandahar, whose great Afghan influence once won him the title of "King-maker." All three, held as hostages, had been murdered as the armies of Nadir approached Kabul...
...Authorized statements from official sources" in the U. S. Government; prepared without bias, printed without sensation, unaccompanied by comment, illustration, elucidation or humor, are what the United States Daily has been furnishing in Washington for three and one-half years. A complete daily tabulation of the functioning of the Federal machinery, it is a unique newspaper valued by business and lawyermen, teachers, editors, government officials the country over...
Harvard's star half-miler of several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes...