Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
...water and alcohol which would show the proper proof to deceive gaugers but which even a "sick" person would never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress, evidently, before their full extent was disclosed to Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran, who, last week in Washington, sat frowning at an 84-page report. At 'legger prices, the liquor theft, directly under the nose of U. S. agents, amounted to some...
Teased Mississippi's Democratic Senator Harrison: "I'm surprised that you should deceive your wife...
Serene as always, King Fuad arrived, noted the makeshift throne, diplomatically tested only the edge of its capacity. To M. Avenol, still warm from his recent labors, King Fuad hinted: "Each time Egypt has been invited to international meetings under the auspices of the League she has been happy to participate...
...staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which the king of Egypt would decorously fit. The democratic, glass-walled Council Chamber...