Word: mately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Spring the French and their Continental allies put through with the con sent of the then Conservative British Government a resolution providing in effect that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission should not seek or even con sider ways of limiting either war mate rials held in peacetime readiness by a nation or the number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last...
...Historical Village at Dearborn, Mich., last week, Henry Ford and his son and grandsons witnessed the reopening of the school in which Henry Ford studied in 1870. Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry...
...goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...asked his wife. "Because I'm not mad," said the Commodore. "Prove it," said Mrs. Trunnion. And this he could not do. Instead, he put her off his ship, made her walk the plank in fact, and went back to his old way of living with Hatchways, his mate, and Fawcett, an able seaman...
...There is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. Seamen say that when a whale wins his mate, he escorts her to the dark waters of great depths...