Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief of the Army Air Service. He had left Memphis by air at 5 o'clock of an evening and had not arrived at expectant Nashville. When he landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether...
Thus the U. S. saw fit to promote the observance of the Fifth Commandment not by law. but by a well-organized "Day" * celebrating 100% filial piety...
...Filene's arithmetic was based on psychology. He looked out upon the masses of his fellow-countrymen and saw literally millions?"seven out of every ten"?panting for the salt air of the ocean, thirsting for the seasoned flavor of Europe. These millions cannot afford the $500 tickets of the S. S. Paris, Olympic or Aquitania. Second class is expensive; and they refuse to go third class, to label their baggage with an inferior tag, to promenade in the huddled after-decks...
...dash -dash -dash -dash." It was a code no man could have interpreted. But the pen made a stroke for a dot, left a blank for a dash, gradually moving to the right over the rotating cylinder. Those who watched saw black masses shape into a cap, an eye, a mustache, another eye, a shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began again, sketched some...
After concluding a large number of treaties with foreign powers providing for investigation and arbitration of disputes he saw his work destroyed by the World War. When the "Lusitania" sank Mr. Bryan, who is a pronounced pacifist, resigned because the President's protest to Germany was too warlike. Since then his political activities have not been so extensive though his brother Charles W. Bryan was nominated for the Vice Presidency last year largely through his efforts...