Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This statement produced varied effects. It was hardly more than the Second Dawes Committee delegates had expected, but in many quarters it produced a sentiment of discouragement, an opinion that the U. S. persisted in being "timidly aloof...
...news. The President sloshed himself, dried himself, shaved himself (the secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this was a day of days-the 27th anniversary of the Republic's founding and his second Inaugural. There would be a gay time in the old town† that day and night...
...afflatus which he gave to U. S. aviation has in the two years become a mighty thing. A two-hundred-million-dollar air industry has developed. The airmail, which Paul Henderson systematized with difficulty when he was Second-Assistant Postmaster-General (1922-25)*, at the beginning of this month was operating over 22,778 mi. of airways, with 3,975 mi. more scheduled soon...
Engagement Broken. By Princess, Irene of Greece, second-youngest daughter of the late King Constantine; with Prince Christian Schaumburg-Lippe, nephew of Denmark's King Christian...
said he: "I think it will be best if I do not serve on any of the juries in the future, since my business is lecturing on modern books, and naturally I have preferences which I must leave myself free to express." It was the second such reversal. For the 1921 novel prize, the board chose Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence after the Committee had recommended Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...