Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the great days that mark a British sportsman's calendar-"Derby Day," "The Grand National," "Gold Cup Day," "Boat Race Day"-none is more important than "The Twelfth." By law and tradition mid-August is the time set apart for the shooting of the game red grouse. To celebrate "The Twelfth" last week, brokers, brewers, baronets and belted Earls set off with some sixteen pieces of luggage each to join fashionable grouseparties on Scotch moors...
...further mark of leniency, both judges suspended sentence on Hudson Clarke Jr. on his promise to lead "an honorable life" and try to support his crippled father, and the wives and families of the others, who are left destitute. He walked from the court, free, with $1.27, to start life over again...
...stocks which started up the O'Fallon decision (TIME, May 27). remained strong. Yet not many were selling at 15 times earnings. The following table shows last week's closing on ten rails and the figure those rails would have closed at had they reached the 15 times earnings mark...
...give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno...
...test on which Winner Huston scored 92 and lowest competitor above 60, the passing mark, was in four parts, running from specific questions to vague ones that were admittedly impossible to grade but gave characteristics of the boy. Some of the questions follow with the answers...