Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brave John Umbles, Negro, one-time personal orderly to General John Joseph Pershing, helped save five people from drowning last summer. Later mean Mr. Umbles murdered his wife and his sister-in-law. Should Mr. Umbles be hanged by the neck? "Yes," said the Alabama jury which convicted him of his second murder. "No," said the Alabama Board of Pardons, which last week recommended that his death sentence be changed to life imprisonment...
...other elevator man left during Herman's description of a "swell show," "a dame an' I don't mean maybe," and some "honest-tuh-God gin" from a man out in Ravenswood...
...aggressive war, and the details of the Locarno agreement. The resolution on the cooperative system displays a very hazy grasp of economic theory. Do its supporters know the successes and failures in cooperative marketing in Great Britain and the United States? Have they studied statistics? What do they mean by workers sharing in the control, and by the term "workers...
Signor Mussolini has decreed a bachelor tax (See "Alalas"), assumedly with the deliberate purpose of increasing the pressure of already teeming Italians upon their frontiers. Does this mean that he envisions a war of conquest for new territory? Last week U. S. newsgatherers asked him this question as tactfully as they could. Instead of returning them a glare for their pains, II Duce, ruddy with health and vigor, seemingly in the best of humors, sketched his professed idea of how Italy is to expand without fighting. Said...
Louis Pasteur verified - many diseases may be prevented and cured by injecting into the patient an attenuated solution of the very germ that caused the disease. This is immunity, and was first applied with scientific precision to humans by Louis Pasteur in the 1880's. With hydrophobia, this mean giving doses of serum as soon as possible after the bite. Pasteur prevented hundreds of horrible deaths from this disease...