Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt he saw the hostility of the Senate to the measure; accord- ingly, he suggested−since it was a case affecting the vital interests of the country and demanding careful deliberation−that discussion of the Bill be indefinitely delayed. The Senators readily agreed−a remarkable victory for the Premier, as they had seemed certain to defeat the measure...
...Leningrad and Moscow; the peasants stuck more closely than ever to their hoarded grain; the capitalists, such few as there were, were hounded into inactivity. On top of this, came heavy frost in the autumn before the first snowfall, with incalculable damage to the sown grain. Abroad, Communism saw an intractable U. S., a change of Government in Britain, that could hardly be looked upon as favorable to Russia. It secured recognition in Italy, France, some other countries,*but no appreciable benefits. Early this year (TIME, Feb. 2), recognition by Japan was more easily obtained, sincethere were no momentous fiscal...
...wondered young George Jervaile. one of Eliphalet's men, did the old man sit always alone, drumming on the table? Why had he given him, Jervaile, $3,000 to go ashore on a certain southern isle with a loaded pistol and report what he saw? There was only an empty hut on that island, Jervaile told Eliphalet when he came back...
...tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...