Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall of the House of Representatives, a great assemblage paid final tribute to Warren G. Harding. At a joint session of the House and Senate, with the President, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court and the Diplomatic Corps occupying the front seats, Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes delivered a memorial address in honor of the late President...
They were disappointed in this expectation; they were offered instead a joint guarantee by Great Britain and the United States of America. With the abstention of America this offer itself lapsed, and the French people have since, with some justification, been seeking for other and more tangible safeguards to take its place...
...common affliction of able bankers. He is 60 years of age and for about 40 of those years he has devoted himself entirely to higher mathematics, law, and the study of finance. In "the City" (London's Wall Street section), Mr. McKenna is Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, one of the greatest British banks. But he is more than this; he is looked upon as one of the greatest authorities on budgetary finance and banking in the world and holds the enviable reputation of having successfully managed Britain's finances through a most difficult part...
...joint commission, formed to delimit Fiume according to the recent treaty agreement, began its work...
...small square temple, built by the Sumerian king Aannipadda, of Ur, about 4500 B. C., is the oldest building in the world still standing above ground, according to a report from Dr. C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, which is excavating in the region of Ur in lower Babylonia (TiME, April 28, July 9, Dec. 31). The temple, located at Tell el Obeid, four miles from Ur, was first unearthed some months ago, but its excavation has now been completed, carrying back the known history of Sumeria...