Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scurvy and Scandal. After the war was over, when drums and brass horns no longer sounded for hurrying men to march to, people were still talking. Cabinet ministers and men in barrooms were talking bitterly and saying the same things...
Some 400 cases of U. S. oranges were sent to a cool spot to wait for the day of the parade, when they will be handed out along the line of march to French children...
...until last March was the sarcophagus opened. Despite its elaborate concealment, the magnificent array around it and the obvious fact that thieves had never penetrated to it, the sarcophagus was empty. Cheops, having had one experience with thieves -at Dahshur, had evidently carried his ruse of concealment one step beyond extreme caution and hidden his mother's mummy still elsewhere...
While these high principled statements probably came honestly from a man of such reputed nobility of character as Chiang Kai-shek the immediate cause of his resignation last week was simply the recent series of defeats which his armies have suffered in their attempt to take Peking (TIME, March...
...searchlight, hugest in the world, would be at the service of Virginia physicists and of night flyers between Boston and New Orleans. Differing from bright predecessors only in size, the monster Monticello searchlight is the latest creation of Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor of gyroscopes, gyro-compasses, stabilizers, searchlights (TIME, March 30, 1925, Nov. 1, 1926). At Scott Field, Ill., there is a Sperry light which airmen have seen 150 miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts...