Word: resort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns his own marque of champagne, keeps a smart racing stable, and draws most of his immense income from real estate scattered throughout Europe and South America, from oil fields in Mexico, and from Le Journal...
...wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct interpretation is that of a shift in the earth's instantaneous axis of rotation. As a last resort it may be necessary to consider movement in the earth's crust, although Professor Stetson was reluctant to affirm this statement until a more extensive study of allied problems had been completed...
Only at Viña del Mar, famed seaside resort, may one roulette wheel spin with Governmental & Presidential sanction...
...fences in the columns of the Boston Evening Transcript has recently pointed to the dangers which are contained in "battle of the goal posts". So far the rightful title to this equipment has been left undecided by the Judicial bodies of the nation and weekly it is necessary to resort to force to decide this matter. The theory that the victorious institution deserves the goal posts of the opposition has the apparent support of a physically aggressive minority, but traditional precedent and established property rights do not support this view. Only within the present decade has vandalism followed victory. Even...
...third quarter was marked by the resort on both sides to an aerial game, which proved threatening but ineffective, and it was not until the middle of the final period that Gilligan slid through the Yale line to place the Crimson once more in scoring position on the three-yard line. Four downs were required to push the score across. Bernard White '32 kicked the goal...