Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done to a dead states man and to a living sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, present in the drizzle with wife, son and daughter. Bryan is the sixth hero whom he has immortalized in Washington.* A chance for him to do a seventh hero ended lately when the House killed Senate Joint Resolution 21, permitting the erection of a Borglum statue to Colonel Robert Ingersoll (TIME, April...
...applause was as nothing compared to the demonstrations next day when the legislature in joint session adopted a resolution written by Senores Quezon and Osmena, promising "appreciation and everlasting gratitude to the President and Congress of the U. S. and to the American people." The resolution was adopted on the 36th anniversary of the day when Commodore Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and made Swiss cheese of the impotent royal navy of His Imperial, 12-year-old Majesty, Alfonso XIII, last King of Spain. It marked the formal acceptance on behalf of the Philippines of the new offer of freedom...
...Behave Yourself (1921), Bubbling Over (1926), Burgoo King (1932), Broker's Tip (1933). But the Colonel can, and has when Thompson was sick, trained his own horses himself. His brother John, after a career of big-game hunting and backing Explorer Frederick A. ("Doc") Cook, retired from their joint affairs to a Western ranch. Brother Garvey, onetime big-league ballplayer, was never associated with the Colonel...
...bargain? And all this single-handed, too. It might be well to consider, at least once again, that we are taking upon ourselves a very serious burden in such a declaration of policy as we have made. It is very significant that England ha refused to cooperate in a joint statement of policy. Probably a desire to avoid the appearance of a "white bloc," which notion the Japanese patriots would seize upon with characteristic shrewdness moved, England to act as she did. Or, yet more probable, and with characteristic British brilliancy, British foreign policy elected to watch and wait, gently...
...Wyandotte County, Kans., fell upon the vice president as he entered in the morning, made off with $1,400. While waiting for the time lock to release the vault door, one of the robbers observed: "You know, it's a wonder that Dillinger hasn't visited this joint...