Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that...
*Railroadmen prohibited from working more than eight hours a day, except in emergencies; strikes and lockouts illegal, except after 90-day notice; the President empowered to take control of railways in national emergencies.
Sutcliffe was at last given leg-before-wicket after he had scored 135, his sixth century of the present series, batting for six hours and 15 minutes. The wickets fell faster when he was removed. As the afternoon lengthened, it at last seemed likely that England would pass the Australian...
(3 of 4) the most famed being that of 1866 when he took the null schooner Henrietta across in 13 days, 21 hours.
Pilot Becker, ill, was quarantined in Port-au-Prince. The rest went to Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes...