Word: parcels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris garbage men decided to join parcel-postmen in striking for higher pay. The city authorities are trying to improvise a garbage removal service, but Parisians were without any hope of receiving parcels through the post...
...morning last week, every Senator and Representative found in his mail a small box. When the parcel was opened, out came an automobile six inches long. But, alas, its left front wheel was crumpled and from it hung a tag, inviting each Congressman to repeal the 5% tax on new automobile parts...
...that will be taken to ensure this improvement are: sale of the match monopoly which has been run at a loss; general increase of 20% in taxation; reorganization of provincial government system, estimated to save 1,000,000,000 francs; penalization of persons falsifying income tax returns; increase in parcel post, postcard and telephone charges; 50% increase in railway fares, estimated to save the State 1,500,000,000; increase in the price of tobacco, a State monopoly; increase in the stamp...
Again, there is no denying that the world has been filled with lies and misleading propaganda about Soviet Russia. But can we dismiss the whole body of information and misinformation now at our disposal as an unqualified parcel of lies? In his chapter entitled "The Poison Gas Attack" Professor Ross lists forty nine stories as absolute lies and attempts to refute them by ipse dixit declarations, sarcastic comment, or by demonstrating them to be illogical (surely a risky business). False they may be, in part or in whole, but flat statements unsupported by proff or authority can bear little weight...
...second bequest came in 1882 when John Owen, a graduate of Bowdoin and of the Harvard Divinity School deeded to the College a small parcel of land, owned by him since 1856 on the Charles River adjoining the Longfellow land...