Word: naughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starlings, migrating from their winter homes, were lost in a fog off New York Harbor. Happily, they found refuge on the steamship, Elbro, anchored near Ambrose Light. Some were killed by dashing themselves against the cabins of the ship. Bird-lovers were touched but, most of the world knew naught of feathered events, at a time when French birdmen had found no refuge and U. S. birdmen were preparing to migrate across the Atlantic...
Kermit Roosevelt: "My brother, Archie, was robbed of some of his distinction as a hunter of big game when, last week, it was reported that Hunter Stanley R. Graham of Chicago had returned with four pumas from the Princon Mountains, Ariz., where my brother hunted but bagged naught...
Parisian hooligans made discourteous signs, insulting sounds last week, as many a Teuton spread before him Die Neue Pariser Zeitung. Skeptics concluded that the dove of peace has hatched naught more promising than this: the first German newspaper to resume publication in Paris since...
...Rotarians and Realtors would have the world know that, in spite of the late unpleasantness, their state is still the earthly paradise. That there was a slight frolic of the elements, that rain drops fell, that breezes blew--all this the Floridians admit. But of disaster they will have naught. Photographs, presumably taken after the tempest, are spread over the country, and they show scenes in a peaceful southern clime, with slightly battered palms outlined gracefully against...
...first to respond as the alphabetical roll was called was the Australian delegate who shouted a cheery "Aye!" It was explained to the French tellers who understood only English English that "aye" meant "yes." Forthwith the voting proceeded with naught heard but "yes" or "oui" At the 48th affirmative President Nintchitch announced that Germany had been unanimously elected to membership in the League of Nations and to a permanent seat on the League Council...