Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which invidious comparisons were made between Home and Dominion soldiers, the House voted "No" by 320 to 156 votes. ¶Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill was asked why he had permitted the Government's de- cision to issue a new conversion loan of $150,000,000 to leak into the City. Mr. Churchill cleared himself by stating that a permanent and non-partisan Treasury official had investigated the leak, found nothing. The House was mollified. ¶A Conservative, name omitted in cable despatches, asked Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain if any attempt had been made to collect the British...
There has been a leak somewhere. The dreadful secret of what really happened when the Law School gathered to cheer Dean Pound is now emblazoned on the pages of "Time", Encouraged, or maybe goaded; by this exposure, a law student suggests that the following advertisement be run in the next issue of the Harvard Law Review...
Prof. Michelson was nearing the end of his lecture. He told of the difficulties the experimenters encountered. An air leak developed in the pipe and some hundreds of joints had to be repainted. The jars of a train moving more than a mile away disordered the delicate instruments. Much of the work had to be done at night and in the early hours of the morning to avoid mechanical difficulties...
Last week, came the news by wireless from the Maud, relayed via Christiania, that she had met with misadventure, had failed to get into the drift across the pole, was returning. Furthermore, she had sprung a small leak and was almost out of fuel oil, so that she will be compelled to use her sails to complete her return. Another blow at Amundsen...
Platform. The Labor Party let it leak out that?in the event there comes a general election?its platform will embrace...