Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine August morning in 1925, the Danish Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body...
...Significance. The importance of the forthcoming conference lies in what attitude the powers are prepared to take. If they are prepared to make concessions the way may be open to a gradual amelioration of the present tense and fruitless state of affairs. On the other hand it will lay their nationals and their interests open to suffering and trespass if not destruction by the anti-foreign sentiment abroad in China. If the powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within...
These things should lie discussed at party meetings. A party which did so openly and wisely would discover a new and living interest in the electroate, for then politics would be dealing once more with matters about which everyone wants to know and which deeply affect everyone's life...
...Vienna, the city where lie the bones of Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talk-the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts...
Again an evening-up process has occurred in gasoline prices. California has been in a position to furnish cargo lots at lie a gallon, which can be shipped to the Atlantic seaboard for 2? a gallon. As a result, Standard Oil of New Jersey has cut its tank-wagon price I? and Standard of New York...