Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five generals with a force large enough to exterminate a number of unpatriotic countrymen who have uprisen in the states of Lara, Trujillo and Portuguesa, left yesterday for those districts. Exterminate this nest of rebels from the very roots in order to free those unfortunate districts of evil doers who should be exterminated radically by material force of the government...
Despite this catharsis, Mexico's army still will not lack for generals. There were 350 of them at the beginning of the revolution, and only four got killed. So 291 are left to command an army...
...Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind...
When Edison Electric Illuminating Co. was formed in 1884 to introduce electric lighting in New York City, young Banker Adams went on its board of directors as a matter of course. Equally as a matter of course he left it in 1889-when he entered a sphere of activity more significant even than the early Edison companies, a sphere of historic significance in any year celebrative of Electric Light. He resigned from his Edison connection because it was necessary for him to make a fundamental decision about this new electrical industry which was growing up. The decision lay between Direct...
...professional prescription. Advocates argued that euthanasia has become common in the Reich. Opponents pointed out that no one man has the moral balance to decide on another's death. It apparently did not occur to the German debaters last week that lethal decisions, before the act, might be left to a jury of physicians or to a court...