Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paying these five bills the Council will meet all of its outstanding obligations and should still have enough funds left to meet its regular expenses...
Rumanian railways are mostly single-track. As the Orient approached the tiny station of Recea so did a local express train. Head on they crashed, directly in front of the station. One reeling locomotive toppled to right, the other to left. Thirty passengers and both engineers were instantly killed. Among the wounded was the Wahl Eversharp Pencil Co.'s foreign sales manager, Mr. Alexander Herschler of Rochester...
When they left Long Island, the fliers took with them 525 gallons of gas. Half an hour longer in the air and they would have had none left. Weather conditions were consistently bad. Flying over the Pennsylvanian Appalachians they encountered what Tucker calls the worst fog he has ever seen. For 1,000 miles they fought a head wind, which retarded their average speed some 20 miles an hour...
...marrying a woman they wouldn't like in South Bend. While the camera turns its solemn eye and ear on the declamations and gestures of Richard Bennett and Doris Kenyon, the spectators, distracted by the jerky sequences, annoyed by the enormous metallic voices issuing from the vitaphone, are left to wonder what sounds even a perfected mechanism could produce which would equal the beautiful silence of oldfashioned cinemas...
...when Thomas Jefferson said on the death of his immigrant friend Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours in 1817, "No man ever labored more zealously or honestly ... he has left abundant monuments," could he have suspected that one of the monuments would be valued no years later at $308,000,000. For in 1802 son Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours began concocting friable messes of gunpowder in a squat stone house on Brandywine Creek, Delaware. Son Eleuthere Irenee had learnt his chemistry from Lavoisier.* clarified, refined, improved his formulae, passed them through to great-great-grandson Lammot du Pont...