Word: puts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover, Ishbel and Lady Isabella Howard at once began to chat, joined by Statesman Stimson. President and Prime Minister stood apart, talking earnestly for twelve minutes. Keynote No. 2. Back at the British Embassy some 30 minutes later, the Prime Minister received about 200 newsgatherers. "All that I put in a plea for is that disagreement never be aggravated by misunderstanding," he said. "Neither your President, I believe, nor myself-I can certainly talk for myself- have any idea of spending much time in discussing details. We should like to survey together the large and wide, the high and deep...
Five thousand Boy Scouts and 15,000 collegians in Madison, Wis., moaned when Colgate bustled to a three-minute touchdown, howled with joy when Gantenbein, Lubratovich and the Rabholz brothers put one over in the third period and another in the fourth. Wisconsin 13, Colgate...
...papers and store windows, then on billboards and in city papers. When he had $100,000 he spent it all on an advertising campaign in Manhattan, got no returns. He saved up $100,000 more, spent that the same way, then $250,000 that brought back his losses and put him way ahead. "I'm strong for honest ballyhoo, but you can't treat them all alike. Don't let them lose you and don't let them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen...
...said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there can be no real peace...
...chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question would be put directly to the people...