Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the world meanwhile received news pictures of a stately private palace, with immense Ionic columns and heroic figures on the roof (see cut) in which Mrs. Simpson is to live on her return to London, according to both Associated Press and United Press which announced "she will move in early in Octo...
...When this is published, I hope I shall be safely in the jungles again and free. I say I am free, but actually I am not free, for I am a Frenchman, and I can never return to France...
...Estimates of how much of the cotton the machine picked the first time over a row varied from 50% to 75%, the second time 80% to 95%. Estimates of how much the reduction in grade, caused by trash, leaves and possible stain, would lop off the grower's return ranged from $3 to $7 per bale. Frequently heard was the opinion that, even if the machine were practical on huge, flat, high-yield tracts, it would do poorly on small plots, on hilly ground, on low-yield acreage. Sample comment...
Cracked Harvardman Stuart Chase, Class of 1910: "Most of them ask nothing better than a return to the good old days. . . . One is tempted to ask why we should not settle down to the football of our forefathers, with goal posts on the zero yard line, five yards for a first down, and no forward passes...
...bread, 16 pieces of pork, each weighing 2 lb., 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles of wine ... 28 gallons of water" and set adrift. Actually his career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven off his ship in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. In 1806 Bligh was made governor of New South Wales, was deposed...