Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ships were authorized for sale, none for charter. Only U. S. bidders need apply. Bids were invited for any of eight different combinations of the ships, one combination requiring the promise to construct two fast new mail ships...
...over the four-section caravan. They left the commenting to Prohibition agents at Malone, N. Y., after the trains had crossed the border. Such is the reputation of Circus Man John Ringling for discipline and probity-he entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials was even suspected of connivance. At Malone, the Federal men confiscated some 4,000 bottles of prime Canadian whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were...
...regret-that the same union does not exist in the corridors of the Chamber. We will continue to govern with whatever majority follows us. We desire it to be as large as possible, but we shall be faithful to those who are faithful to us. We will exclude none but those who exclude themselves." Swayed by the bold words, the Chamber voted confidence 455 to 126, fooled prophets...
...more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly in the self-contradictory New Testament records which seem to him logical enough if arranged psychologically. The avowed object of his search is Jesus the human being...
...Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp exchange of their arrows for rocks catapulted from the majestic ship of none other than "Julius Seaser...