Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closes the history of the Board's offer of 200 ships for scrapping or operation (TIME, July 20). It began several months ago when the Board asked for bids on 200 ships. It continued when the Board opened some 20 bids and found none from Henry Ford; and Mr. Ford told the Press that he had sent a bid. It continued when the Board reopened the bidding, rejecting the largest bid-$1,370,000. It continued when Mr. Ford submitted a bid for $1,706,000. It concluded when the Board accepted Mr. Ford's bid last week...
Last week, an obese Ohioan, Roy Asa Haynes, was knocked off his Prohibition horse which, in the opinion of critics, he has riden none too ably during the four years that have elapsed since President Harding appointed him to the munificent office of Prohibition Commissioner...
...None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace...
...York World, which quite omitted the rotating-semester feature, saying with cold logic: "It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten-weeks summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...what U. S. paper has the most advertising? Is it any of the great or the near great?. The New York Times? The Boston Transcript? The Chicago Tribune? None of these. The proud publisher of the greatest amount of advertising since Jan. 1, 1925, could not keep it to himself. He began to advertise it. He is Frank B. Shutts, who publishes his Miami Herald in booming...