Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffrage, child labor laws, free speech. The journalistic tradition of which he is heir was originally voiced by his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not ex-cuse-I will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD...
...rails last week The engines were painted olive green, the color of B. & O. passenger coaches. Besides using green for the black paint, that has been standard with locomotive users since 1878, the painter striped each machine with gold and red bands. Also, on each cab, in three-inch gilt letters, was the name of a U. S. President, from President Washington to President Arthur.† This was no imitation of custom long obsolete in the U. S. but yet current in Great Britain, of naming locomotives. Nor was the festive painting a symptom of giddiness on the part...
...murder; Daughter Snyder, aged 9, was in tears. It remained for some worthy soul to preach a great moral lesson. Mr. Hearst's New York Daily Mirror, which is only excelled in vulgarity by Mr. Macfadden's Daily Graphic, assumed the lofty mission. Beneath the two-inch headline, ''INDICTED!" the Daily Mirror published a full page photograph of Daughter Snyder supported by a nondescript woman in a fur coat and a man looking more like a pious bootlegger than an undertaker. Daughter Snyder's head was bent-her face completely hidden...
...contract for the new 60 inch reflecting telescope which is to be installed at Bloemfontein and which, as previously announced, will be the largest one in the Southern Hemisphere, has been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh...
...some time during the year there would appear, at least to the student, to be no better time than the Midyear period. Then he could devote undivided attention to his books, safe in the knowledge that Tremont Street was but an echoing lane and that dust lay an inch thick on Harpo's harp...