Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear about the same subject in Room 424. A talk on Marketing will be delivered to Section F in Room 332 at 12 o'clock and at 2 o'clock Sections B, C, and D will convene in Room 100 to hear a speech on Finance. At the same hour Section E will receive a lecture on Marketing in Room 122. Dean Donham will present the introductory problem to all the sections at 3 o'clock in Room...
...proved to be the darkest hour before the dawn. The room was insufferably hot. It all seemed over. Somebody moved for adjournment for ten minutes to give us a chance to get a breath of air. We broke up into little groups. The British remained in the conference room. The others went outside. Then the bargaining began...
...only 60% of our claims. I wrote our refusal and the heads of what we must have on a half sheet of note paper. We waited half an hour. Later he returned. He had advanced the offer 100,000 pounds a quarter of an hour back. Now he came with 50,000 more. He said that it was all he could...
Midnight was the hour at which there came automatically into effect the new Tacna-Arica Treaty (TIME, May 27) by which the disputed province of Tacna-Arica is partitioned, Chile keeping Arica and ceding Tacna to Peru. To make this transfer doubly binding, doubly impressive, Government property in Tacna Province was divided into 138 parcels, each to be signed over separately. As midnight tolled, the pen-scratching tournament began...
...hour and 45 minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...