Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experience has taught the U. S. Post Office Dept. that the public uses about 3,200,000,000 stamped envelopes each year. Accordingly, finding its supply low, it advertised last month for bids to supply envelopes over a period of four years, in the amount...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...
...Story is told by Novelist Mussolini with kinetic gusto, occasional pathos, and incessant priest-baiting, cardinal-baiting and even Pope-baiting. Choosing the 17th Century as his period, he pithily sets scene, sketches characters...
...foot schooner, hove languidly into sight of Santander, Spain, and was towed across the finish line. The winner of the race, Elena, had made the same voyage in 16 days, 21 hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...
...Their publishing program includes a juvenile department headed by the daughter of picturesque Dr. Mabel Ulrich, Minnesota physician, college lecturer on sex, and successful bookshop proprietor. The young publishers' big catch is a volume of Thornton Wilder's drama collected over a period of twelve years. The final sheets were sent piecemeal, handwritten on yellow foolscap, from Gene Tunney's training camp...