Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English midlands that numerous water-hogging textile mills were forced to shut down for one week provisionally. In London, the Ministry of Health, after advising municipalities to ration their water with "rigid economy," concluded cryptically: "Statistics appear to show that the rainfall in England during the next few years may continue below average...
...Verdun! In that desperate moment we called upon the men of the United States for our just cause. However bitter may be our internal debates in this painful discussion, I can hear the heart of France beating in gratitude to America! I am saying these words so that the people across the seas will know that there are some moments Frenchmen will never forget...
...asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel-law the government allowed the deputies to vote a resolution expressing their conviction that no matter what engagements France may undertake she simply cannot pay the U. S. more than she receives from Germany...
...jubilant were the members of the Chamber of Deputies at their final disposal of the U. S. debt bugaboo that a short time afterward when the government asked for ratification of the Franco-British debt settlement (TIME, May 10. 1926), it was voted through in a few seconds by a mere show of hands. Comparatively small, as such gargantuan matters go, the British Settlement pledges France to pay ?653,727,900 over 67 years...
...falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen include a street of arcaded shops; an all-night night club called The Astoria; and an optional Ritz Restaurant, where first class passengers may pay extra for a la carte food. First class Bremen tickets cost $315 up-"Highest minimum rate on the Atlantic...