Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson rode to the Capitol to surrender the reins of office, a very sick man. Since then his life has been lived at Washington but out of the spotlight of publicity. Now and again he emerged from the twilight of his privacy in some public act, but in the main he has kept out of the public...
...Treaty Signed. In the Palais de Lumiere (main hall of the Lausanne University), Turkey, Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Rumania, Japan signed the Lausanne Peace Treaty, which puts an end to the state of war in the Near East...
Mussolini telegraphed the Prefect of Pisa to apologize to Cardinal Main for "the foolish violence against Catholic clubs, and express to him my profound sorrow...
...satisfied with the results of such a conference, will withdraw progressively from the Ruhr Valley. The conference is based on Secretary Hughes' plan to discover by an international committee the capacity of Germany to pay reparations, and may have the backing of the U. S. Government. The main purpose of the conference will be to seek a solution of the Ruhr and reparations problems on a plane that will be acceptable to France and not injurious to European trade. It will also take into consideration the French demand for territorial security and will suggest Anglo-French participation in German...
...principle will make possible the elimination of complicated gear trains in automobiles, elevators, air compressors, belt conveyors, spinning and weaving, metal shearing and punching machines, and all others where the main shafting or drive is run at a high rate of speed...