Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One reason for this surprise ending was that Tennessee's voters, even outside of Crump-controlled Shelby County, clearly indicated their repudiation of Senator Berry and Governor Browning. Pluralities of 86,000 and 74,000, respectively, were returned for the Crump-McKellar candidates, Lawyer Arthur Thomas Stewart of Winchester...
"During the day it is His Britannic Majesty's Government, while from nightfall to daybreak it is the rebels' government," cracked Arab villagers. The Oozlebarts, operating under an "unknown generalissimo" with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take...
The Crime Seminar was formed for the benefit of rural prosecuting attorneys who know nothing about crime detection beyond what fiction and films have taught them, who are nevertheless often obliged, in a pinch, to turn detective. Thirty-five ambitious, youngish men from 23 States last week buckled down to...
For seven weeks the 130 scoops of the Karimata brought up 400 tons an hour- sand, and nothing else. Then the scoops reached the wreck, tore away great iron ballast blocks from the hull. Said a Netherlander named Eelke Ryn de Beer last fortnight: "I was standing at the edge...
When a storm broke a window of Philbert Hartshorn's hardware store in Owosso, Mich., he wrote the company from which he had bought insurance asking them to replace it. The company did nothing. He wired: REMEMBER THAT YOU ALSO CARRY OUR BURGLARY INSURANCE. Repairs were promptly made.