Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, most Roman citizens are still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
When the Mexican War broke out (1846), there was no holding Sailor Buchanan: he applied for active service, was accepted, and saw it. "For services rendered in Mexico," he was officially complimented by the Maryland Legislature, presented with 160 acres in Iowa. The Civil War found him in command of Washington Navy Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned...
...when the noble Grundy saw the jackass stab...
When Dan'l died in 1906, Grandma mourned him, then went on her travels. She visited her scattered family. She saw the sights of Washington. She went up Lookout Mountain and had dinner there...
...Pomfret became more and more a "hard-collar" school, its worldly goods were added unto. From Banker Edward R. Stettinius, from the late Morton F. Plant of New London came schoolhouses and dormitories. Mrs. Frederic E. Lewis of Ridgefield gave a gymnasium. Mr. O saw to it that his students used chapel, schoolhouses and gymnasium faithfully and fruitfully. His was a one-man school...