Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the Dean of Westminster proposed, last week, that the late Lord Oxford and Asquith should be buried in Westminster Abbey, this project was thwarted by the dead Earl. He had left positive instructions. Therefore his body was quietly removed, last week, from his Berkshire estate to the neighboring little Church of All Saints. With none but members of his immediate family present the service was performed by the Bishop of Oxford. Later the peer who was called "Lord Oxford" by all, including the King, was interred in the little country graveyard of All Saints...
Utility. These artificial radium rays left the tube in quantities naturally obtainable from a ton of radium. That much radium has not yet been produced. If it existed, at present prices it would be worth $56,000,000,000. The uses of so much energy are unfortellable...
...Without saying a word as the boy gazed up at her, the woman pulled the knife and slashed the boy's throat, then hastily turned and left the building...
...Denver, Colo., last week, the county court overruled all objections to the will of the late Fred H. Forrester, who had left his $110,000 fortune for the permanent care of his collie, Shep, for the welfare of all homeless or abused dumb animals in Colorado, and for the construction of drinking fountains for dogs and horses in Denver streets. Dog Shep had refused to eat for a week after Mr. Forrester's death...
...farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon and shot down a Fokker plane with the words: "Jeeze, what'd you want to pick...