Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...42nd year, as the Dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini is largely a miniature Napoleon, whose gestures he loves to imitate. Of medium height and pale complexion, with lustreless eyes, he controls the Italian ship of state, firmly convinced that his Fascisti are the saviours of his country. In affairs of state Mussolini exhibits remarkable self-control, rare judgment and an efficient application of his ideas to the solving of existing problems...
...office, however, she made all her allowed appointments to Annapolis. The class of 1927 has just been admitted to the Naval Academy. Among its members was Wallace Mason Huck, grandson of William E. Mason, son of Winifred Mason Huck. He was found to be two inches under the minimum height for admission to the Academy. The requirement was waived...
...height of his fortune Villa commanded 35,000 men. He might, after his capture of Mexico City, have become dictator, but he lost his head, and in March, 1916, at the ebb of his fortunes, fleeing from Obregon, he raided Columbus, N. M. The U. S. Government sent General Perishing and 4,000 men to "get" Villa, dead or alive. The expedition cost $100,000,000 and failed to get Villa, though it broke his power. After his final defeat he promised to settle down and be good, if it were made worth his while...
...railway car loadings for the week ending June 30 showed that two new records for all time had been established. During the week, 1,021,770 cars were loaded-which tops the previous record of 1,018,539 cars established in the week ending October 14, 1920, at the height of the post-war freight movement. The second record is for the successive number of weeks when loadings exceeded 1,000,000 cars; the week ending June 30 is the fourth successive million-car week. During October, 1920, three million-car weeks occurred. Increased loadings were reported in every commodity...
Several other states have similar laws; still others have laws of greater stringency. In California and Connecticut aeroplanes must be licensed and must carry registration numbers at least three feet in height. A large number of states, from Maine to Oregon, require that operators be licensed, and in Maine and some other jurisdictions stunt flying is barred except under certain special conditions...