Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down Aguascalientes' Main Street walked Harold G. Bretherton, U. S. Vice Consul. From behind rang out a shot which wounded the Vice Consul slightly in the back. The cause of the outrage was unknown, but it was believed that the bullet was intended for somebody else...
Along the main street of the village, where everyone in town sees everyone else within five minutes, peddlers, hucksters, hot-sausage men (they call their wares "hot monkeys" now), pamphleteers, itinerant evangelists, prepare themselves and their goods for another day's trafficking...
...story as Mr. Doheny told it occupied more than seven hours and 11 newspaper columns and was not finished all in one day. In its main features, there was little difference between Mr. Doheny's account and the popular accounts which have been about, except as to responsibility for the contracts and leases which his company made for exploiting Elk Hills Reserve, for erecting fuel storage tanks at Hawaii. In these, according to Mr. Doheny, Secretary Fall had almost no part, and he himself not so great a part as has been presumed...
...main purpose of the convention -aside from election of officers-was a movement to enlist the support of all Jews, Zionist and non-Zionist, for the construction of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The movement received practically unanimous endorsement and called upon the World Zionist Congress, which meets in Vienna in August, to accept non-Zionist...
...Providence, a law was enforced by the state police: motorists traveling on the main state thoroughfares must maintain a speed of 35 miles an hour or get off the road to avoid blocking traffic...