Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Past the finish line the packets steamed, engines wide open, passengers hullaba-looing. Spectators on the banks were still disputing the result when the ships, carried far upstream by their momentum, returned. The judges declared the Tom Greene had won by a few feet, repeating the performance of its sister ship the Chris Greene which defeated the Betsy Ann in last year's first revival of an old-time race...
...sizzling Paris heat at last proved too much for even grizzly-bearded M. Raymond Poin-caré. He, "Lion of Lorraine," President of France during the War and for 35 months past her indomitable Prime Minister, will be on the 20th of next month 69 years old. In the course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last...
...stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past 22 years by Cunard's famed Mauretania...
Besides following the above excursions of its three presidents, the Association pursued its major purpose of recounting the past year's researches. Some addresses...
Sharp for the past several months has been antagonism between two Bishops who at last week's convocation inevitably met. One of these is the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, "liberal" Bishop of Birmingham, the other is the Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Bishop of St. Albans, stormy conservative. Said Bishop Furse when he saw Bishop Barnes: ". . . He claims liberty for himself and others in freedom of belief and refuses to allow that freedom of belief to be expressed in certain ways by us who, he says, made concessions to religious barbarisms." Interjected the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang...