Word: intervallic
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"President Wilson had determined upon his course of action in the event of his defeat. That was to appoint Mr. Hughes Secretary of State and then have the President and Vice President resign. Mr. Hughes would have become President at once and the interval of waiting would have been abolished...
Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing...
B. B. C. is proudest of its "talks" (by everyone from George V to Pius XI) and especially of its National Lectures inaugurated three years ago by the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. Each National Lecturer is given a full hour in which to talk and if he talks only...
All the criticism, sober and ribald, to which the venal trade of publicizing has been subjected seems to have been blunted on the dullness of its target. Or possibly the public has become so habituated to the nonsensical claims by manufacturers who keep safety-pins and piston rods fresh in...
"This year the same mule, which is about 15 years old, gave birth to a second male foal, and this foal was sired by a different stallion from that of the first foal. Thus, between the births of the two foals there has been an interval of seven years, although...