Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sagely did the President of the German Republic thus allude to the present German merchant marine as a "revived fleet." The achievement summed in those two words has been prodigious, unprecedented. The victorious Allies seized from beaten Imperial Germany enough ships to reduce her pre-War merchant tonnage of 5,500,000 by almost nine-tenths, or to 600,000, yet today the merchant fleet of Republican Germany is up to 3,500,000 tons, or three-fifths of pre-War tonnage. Absolutely phenominal has been the "revival" of the North German Lloyd fleet, as statistics tell...
...novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh son, a brilliant though sometimes over-impassioned orator, and suspected of being the leader of that portion of the Church of England which most nearly approaches the Church of Rome. It was this last qualification in the present Archbishop of York which caused members of the League of Loyal Churchmen and the Protestant Alliance to protest last week against his appointment...
...little theatre ... a famous old theatre and we plan to open Labor Day with our own stock company. We will try out a number of new plays as well as present revivals of plays that have been given on Broadway during the last few years...
...Pancake conferred with fellow delegates, viewed with alarm a proposed change in cable rates. Up for discussion at Brussels will be the "Cortina report," recommending that code words be limited to five letters instead of ten, the cost of sending a 5-letter word to be 68% of the present 10-letter rate. Thus Mr. Pancake's hypothetical cable would read
...half years. Twenty one years ago he worked for the Kinemacolor company. Its pictures showed only two colors. This came from taking two films simultaneously, one through one color screen, the other through another color screen. Then the two films were glued together. Technicolor and Prismacolor pictures shown at present-day theatres come through similar processes...