Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each rally Col. von Struense repeated that the turning point had now arrived, and explained that Monarchists should busy themselves with drumming up 20,000,000 votes, the legal number required to make effective a referendum on the question of whether Germany shall remain a Republic or revert to the status of Empire...
Presently Bat'a shoes began to move on endless belts past workmen, each of whom performed a single operation. If the belt hurried a little, why so did the workmen-and were paid according to the number of shoes they produced...
...club piazzas about who should be on the team, some excited women played polo at the Westchester Biltmore. Canadian women and U. S. ones, they were getting ready to play the first match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most of them away; only a handful remained at the end to watch Dorothy Hunt-Hogan, the Canadian...
They stood motionless for a moment at the toss-in; then the eight ponies twisted and straightened their necks and the last period started. Two minutes later, number one on the U. S. four, William Averell Harriman, carried the ball up from midfield and scored through a tangle at the goal. Five and a half minutes later the people in the stands stood cheering in the rain because the U. S., after trailing at 2-5, had won, by a score of 7-6, the first game in the series intended to decide the "Championship of the Americas...
These demands put the Federal Commission in quandary. Wireless experts figure that 208 short wave wireless channels can be used for communications within the U. S. Of that number 43 are now being used by foreign countries and so are forbidden to U. S. commercializers. Not enough channels are available to satisfy even the present four petitioners...