Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iceland was discovered by the Irish sometime after 800 A.D. A generation or so later when the Norsemen (from Norway, not from Denmark) overran Ireland, they learned from the Irish about the colony which they had already established in Iceland...
...born in Canada under conditions which made me a British subject. Later on, I became automatically Americanized when my father became an American citizen. This made me a citizen of two countries simultaneously. According to British law, I was British. According to American law, I was American. Lawyers differ even now as to which nationality I belong to technically. I travel under a British passport and always mean the Americans when I say "we"-not such a wholly illogical position for one of the earliest members of the English Speaking Union...
...Township, Thuringia. After his marriage he settled in Mansfeld, like many another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that he was born of and raised by and among simple peasants in lowly surroundings would be as absurd...
Four years ago the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, circularized millions of citizens, soliciting subscriptions and inquiring for whom they intended to vote for President. The result was a 99.44% accurate preview of the official electoral vote later cast...
When the Nina sailed into Santander the people, waiting on their launches to see the end of the race, mistook her for the larger* Atlantic which arrived an hour later. The Atlantic, as well as the Pinta, felt last week the force of stormier winds than those which touched them in July. Gerard Lambert, her owner, received a radio from the captain who was sailing back from Cowes to the U. S.; two days before the hurricane reached Porto Rico, he reported that he had encountered ari 80-mile gale, the worst in his experience. His radio message was brief...