Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Party. Her grace and charm are real assets in the White House and contribute much to the prestige of the Administration." Conference delegates also heard Miss Majorie Webster discuss "How to Develop Personality"; Miss Ella May Powell on "Music, the World's New Refuge"; and saw a religious pageant with authentic Biblical costumes from the Holy Land...
...debate closed the Conservative majority, of course, voted the bill past its second reading, a foregone conclusion. Britons, habitually close followers of their legislators, deemed this the most dynamiteful debate since the days of the great General Strike. They saw the lines of class struggle more sharply drawn than ever be fore in the House of Commons. They knew that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill did not overstate the gravity of the coming struggle when he said, later in the week: "A battle has been joined in which we shall be fighting probably for the remainder of our lives...
...Regent's Palace, on Monte Titano, just above the Borgo, the two Capitani Reggenti (Regents) and the 60 Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
Coach Mitchell will start the lineup that first saw action in the Brown tilt last Saturday and that proved so powerful against Holy Cross on Wednesday. The initial mound assignment lies between F. B. Cutts '28 and R. R. Ketchum...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...