Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of Connecticut. At his home in Plainville, Conn., Governor Trumbull did not hesitate to announce that such a rumor was "absolutely bunk." John Coolidge first met Miss Trumbull at his father's inauguration in March, 1925, and has been paying court ever since, visiting her at Mount Holyoke College and at her home...
...separate from his body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify my regard for Mohammed, who believed in war. I discount Christian ritual, holding for the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule. I discount church services and spoken prayers. I declare there are sermons in thunderstorms, wildflowers, oakleaves, snowflakes, squirrels. I advise religionists to adopt the methods of the scientists: obtain irrefutable, concrete data proving Immortality. Then men will have to believe, if the score is only 52 points...
Lieutenants Luther S. Smith, John J. Williams and Cyrus Bettis of the Army sat comfortably in their Curtiss pursuit planes and watched the state of Pennsylvania slide by underneath. They were bound from Philadelphia to Selfridge Field (Mount Clemens...
...Department of Justice, puttering dutifully about lurid Hollywood, Calif., discovered recently an armored truck in the garage of one Herbert Sandburn. Questioned, Mr. Sandburn volubly explained that a Mexican, Senor Benjamin Roqe, had commissioned him to equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began to sleuth. . . . Early one evening last week...
...about 700 miles away). In Bering Sea, a Japanese steamer stood by to behold a long, heavy eruption of Bogoslof, a volcanic island near the eastern end of the Aleutian chain, evidently a continuance of the terrestrial colly wobbles suffered by that region during the past year, in which Mount McKinley, far inland in Alaska, has several times been reported as participating...