Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many were the reasons why the weight of paper opinion should back a year of 13 months. Calendars, for example, would have more pages. In millions of extra pages would be added new tonnage to paper consumption. Furthermore, calendar sales would leap and bound. The public would become calendar-conscious. Persons not acquainted with the new calendar would miss wedding anniversaries, birthdays, holidays...
...best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king with his sad, muzzled face. Best shot: the four singing swashbucklers returning from...
...needed points in the broad jump and shot put to carry it through to victory, but its chances are slim at the best. French should take second place, but here again he may be handicapped by his late start in training. Last year he won the event with a leap of 22 feet 1 1-4 inches, but this year Dartmouth has Canby, the favorite, who is capable of a 23-foot jump. Donner of the Green has also leapt well over 22 feet. Becker of Cornell must also be considered. French will have to be up to form...
...Davidson statue conveys all this. It represents the Senator anxiously leaning forward in his chair, gripping the arms, as though about to leap to his feet with a challenge...
...when Lawyer Hughes was 42, that prestige and public confidence began to attach themselves to his labors in great quantity. Two state investigations, following each other in quick succession, provided the springboard for his leap into general esteem. To State Senator Frederick C. Stevens of New York he owed his appointment as counsel to the legislative committee investigating the cost of gas. The gas companies had fixed it at $1 per null cubic feet, declared the figure could not be slashed. Counsel Hughes proved that 80˘ was ample. The reports and bills he drafted were upheld by the courts...