Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jean Chiappe, Prefect of Police of Paris (see INTERNATIONAL), issued an order, with approval of the Municipal Council of Paris, which ran thus...
...record low temperatures in Asia Minor. Balkan temperatures sank to four below zero in Belgrade and; even lower in other parts of Jugoslavia. "Tall" but circumstantially repeated; was a story of how the dead, frozen bodies of 17 Jugoslavian soldiers were discovered "clutching their rifles and in perfect marching order . . . half buried in and supported by the snow...
...this order devotees of beauty and of Paris rejoiced. The Champs Elysées ("Elysian Fields") are at one end an oblong park of magnificent foliage and at the other a street recently as exclusively residential as was upper Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Most of the signs which glared upon the Elysian Fields up to last week advertised such products-not-sold-on-the-premises as the Austrian tooth preparation Odol and were blatantly objectionable...
Advertisers ruefully recalled that only small electric signs may be displayed on Fifth Avenue, and that onetime President William Howard Taft signed an executive order on Sept. 8, 1911 which makes the frontage of the Panama Canal one of the few U. S. regions where electric signs may not be legally erected...
...William, Emerson Ritter, University of California zoologist and president of Science Service, declared: "When the idea of emergence is applied to racial as well as to individual development, there is left no trace of doubt about the adequacy of the creative power of the natural order to produce man, not only with all his physical, but with all his spiritual attributes...