Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of an advisory committee to the Government, to object to reduction of the bag limit and the length of the open season. He declared that he (Hornaday) and other members of the advisory committee were but "distinguished rubber stamps," while Burnham maneuvered the Department of Agriculture as he saw fit. "I regard Mr. Burnham's influence over Dr. E. W. Nelson and other high officers of the Biological Survey on game-shooting privileges as completely paramount. I believe that that association's influence is to blame for the fact that now the Biological Survey and the Secretary...
...Smyrna with her papa, was kept under surveillance by the Greeks, who believed her to be a spy. When, in the summer of 1922, the Turks drove the Greeks into the sea and triumphantly entered Smyrna, Latife Hanoum, at the head of a group of Turkish maidens, first saw the manly form of "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, then about 41 years of age, to whom she offered buns, coffee and shelter under her father's roof...
...Berlin the Senator was induced to discuss his peregrinations in Turkey. The irreconcilable, who opposed the Turkish-American Treaty for reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, was in a critical mood. As he saw it, Turkey was coming more and more under the thumb of Bolshevik Russia, which is rapidly extending its influence through commercial penetration. Germany's trade position in regard to Turkey, the Senator was convinced, is also fast reaching its pre-War importance, while the positions of Britain, France and Italy are made stationary through jealousy...
...pier at Cattolica, bathing resort near Ravenna on the Adriatic, were Signora Benito Mussolini and her 15-year-old daughter, Edda. A heavy sea was running. The wind was whistling. Spray was flying. Cutting the air like a scimitar came cries for help. Up jumped Edda, peered seawards, saw a bobbing head. Without hesitation she dived into the roaring brine. With long, strong strokes, she propelled herself to the bobbing head, which she discovered to belong to a woman. As the drowner was about to sink, Signorina Mussolini grabbed her, managed to keep her afloat until an armada of rowboated...
Thirty miles away, a group of Americans saw the vast columns of fire and smoke ascending to the heavens. In fast automobiles they dashed to the scene. One Dunlap, superintendent of the area, realized that nothing could be done except to localize the conflagration. The usual method of putting out a blazing oil gusher by steam pressure could not be used, because the nearest boilers were several miles away. Eventually, the authorities at Bucharest, the capital, were induced to send a battery of artillery to bombard the well, with the object of closing it up. Rumanian gunners bombarded...