Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People digging cellars and plowing fields in France and Belgium turned up, last year, the remains of 3,361 British soldiers. Edward of Wales as Honorary President of the Imperial War Graves Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven British cemeteries. Last week the I. W. G. C., tireless, diligent and unsung, published its ninth annual report, a monument to the labors of its Permanent Vice-chairman, Major General Sir Fabian Ware...
...dieu!" cried Madame La Maréchale as she saw the half open front door and rushed frantically within. The house had been ransacked. Silver, jewelry and securities to the value of 50,000 francs were gone-not much in the U. S., scarcely $2,000, but much to grizzled Joseph Joffre. When excited gendarmes came, the Marshal, no longer his fat self of younger days but very thin and trembly, exclaimed, "Whoever burglarized my house was no Frenchman. That, I could not believe...
...flustered President sped to Warsaw, consulted earnestly with the real master of Poland, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who insists upon remaining technically War Minister, though actually Dictator. Emerging from this conference, poor puppet President Moscicki intimated that the Marshal had again refused to accept the Prime Ministry himself and saw no reason for accepting the resignation of M. Kasimir Bartel, just because he thinks he needs a rest...
Experience has taught most inhabitants of Mexico to be calm in the presence of bombs. Therefore when Chief of Police Edmondo Herrera of the rebel garrisoned city of Juarez, saw a large red bomb lying in the gutter, one evening last week, he stopped his car and inspected it professionally. It was a time bomb, containing about 24 Ibs. of dynamite and set to explode...
Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...