Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of State: Calvin Coolidge (but he might like eventually to be Chief Justice, succeeding William Howard Taft); Charles Evans Hughes (but ditto and he needs to make money). Possibly to be: Dwight Whitney Morrow (although Mr. Hoover seemed to have difficulty in coming to this conclusion...
Senator Moran ignored the possibility that Mr. Fuller might frame the checks. Apparently he wished Mr. Fuller to burn them. Rarely, if ever before, had a public servant been blamed for keeping his salary...
...gets worse. The wounds bleed; the parts get blue and swell. Numbness sets in and spreads; vomiting begins; breathing becomes difficult; paralysis starts. The victim suffocates, dies. Each year some 5,000 such tortured deaths occur in India. In the U. S. last year there were 27 reported. There might have been more, for at least 507 persons here were bitten by rattlers, moccasins, copperheads, massasaugas and corals. They are the only poisonous snakes in Canada and the U. S. More of the bitten might have died, had it not been for the antivenin developed by the Antivenin Institute...
...black African cobra. Dr. Ditmarks has the only one in the U. S. It is a peculiar snake, for it squirts its venom at its prey's (or enemy's) face. A drop of its venom blinds the eyes. Dr. Monaelesser hoped that a drop properly treated might be beneficial in epilepsy, nervous disease of obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless...
...Commercialization" is a mysterious word which correspondents have been bandying for years. It is used as a convenient abbreviation for the prolix idea that Germany's state debt to the Allies might be transformed into a private debt, by selling German bonds in the world market and using the cash realized to pay off the state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private...