Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serious difficulties still lie in the path of ultimate evacuation, since France insists upon first receiving payments from Germany based on the Experts' Report. Nevertheless, evacuation will occur unless the German Nationalists win such success as to make the French again distrustful. The French trust the present German Government's sincerity...
...desire is to provide through railroad facilities from Manhattan to Buenos Aires-a distance of about 10,000 miles. About 7,000 miles of the route is already built, including the line from Manhattan to Guatemala. Most of the existing gaps which must be filled to complete the route lie in the northern countries of South America-Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. The representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the U. S. are the moving spirits in the enterprise, and their aim will be to urge the various nations, in whose territory sections of the proposed line are now lacking...
Brookwood Military Cemetery in London, where 428 U. S. soldiers lie buried, was officially handed over to the U. S. Government by its British owners. The Channel Tunnel question, recently revived, is shortly to be brought up in the House of Commons. The approximate cost of building the sub-channel tunnel from Dover to Calais was computed at about $130,000,000. Although Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes is to go to England this month in a strictly private capacity, as a guest of the English Bar, much political significance has been attached to his visit, which will coincide...
...best (after ex-champion A. G. Havers). Play was still led, at 302, for 72 holes, by Whitcombe, until sleek "Walto" added up his 301 and shook hands with everybody. It was a brilliant "victoree," it re-convinced golfdom that beneath "Walto's" glossy and bond-salesman manner there lie rock-ribbed nerves and a truly sporting temperament...
...virtually dragged by the heels into running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...