Word: ly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rule of the Army, fit as he is, he must retire on Sept. 13, at the age limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...
Beldingsville has apparently become an ideal community, through her min istrations, so it beams upon her now and is "glad" with her. She industrious ly makes bandages and comfort-kits, exposes a woman who has been writing poison-pen letters to send to the sol diers. But meanwhile she never writes Jimmy about her great "secret," for which of course she is "gladder" than ever...
...peace plan, announced from afar by his big voice, consisted entire- ly of a few whereases and a suggestion that the President call an international conference to make arbitration treaties...
...bobsleigh competition the Swiss team won with a time of 5 minutes 45 54-100 seconds in four descents of the 1,444 metre chute?near-ly 40 miles an hour. The British team was second, Belgium and France, third and fourth. The chute was dangerous, and a number of accidents resulted. Broken legs were the chief casualties. The Captain of the British team was among the wounded...
Lenin had been absent from the Kremlin, center of Soviet rule, for near- ly two years...