Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course it would have to be developed further, because with all the questions written in the same ink and in the same handwriting, the different section men would not know which one they were expected to correct. There are two remedies for this, which should both be used in order to leave no loopholes...
Said Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, who flew over the Pole in 1926: "This is a superb undertaking. ... It is my guess that the group . . . will drift over toward Spitzbergen or Greenland and in order to stay at the Pole they will have to move their base periodically in the direction of Alaska...
...final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities of such ignition. First, the least probable is ball lightning. I have never seen it and have no knowledge of it or the conditions creating it. I only know that ball lightning can show...
Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal...
...result of the Depression dilemma faced by policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned...