Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cities north of Washington are accustomed to elegant express trains carrying distinguished statesmen. Not until the Smith train entered Virginia did real crowds begin to appear on station platforms. At Charlottesville, though it was getting late, Candidate Smith went out on the back platform and made...
...Much of Novelist Atherton's fame rests on The Conqueror, her romantic biography of Alexander Hamilton, published in 1902. Of late years, her books have been increasingly occupied with It, hormones, endocrines...
...could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
...Baumes Act, which has given rise to a great deal of discussion of late, provides among other things that a fourth conviction of felony automatically entail a life sentence. It is felt by a great many eminent jurists that there are individual cases for which an exception to this law could beneficially be made. The Baumes Act was passed in New York State in 1926 and has subsequently been adopted by several other states...
...double earthquake, the first of that nature recorded this year, was registered at the Seismograph Station in the University Museum late Monday night. The vibrations of the quake were recorded for slightly more than an hour...