Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo show, more than the Detroit show, which will occur the second week in April, has international aspects. Detroit has across its international Detroit River only small Windsor in rural Ontario. Buffalo has beyond the Niagara River prosperous Toronto in industrialized Ontario...
Sherriff, 32, dark, slender, taciturn, was an insurance broker. He knew little of playwriting but he said he would try. The only drama he knew was the War. He had enlisted at 17 and emerged a second lieutenant. He sat down and wrote the story of a dugout in which he had lived. The play was produced. Friends said it was good. At their urging he sent it off to the London managers. One by one they turned it down...
...that has brought its troupe of cowboys and cowgirls into Chicago for a week. There is plenty of color here and an opportunity to deal with the elemental emotions of simple folk. The idea of a clash between these softhearted, hard-boiled plainsmen and the unscrupulous racketeers of the second city of the land is excellent. The elaborations and the compromises are what hurt...
...take it or leave it offer−and a surprisingly generous one−was made to Germany by the Allies last week, according to the press bureau of the German delegation to the second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan 14 et seq.). Whereas under the Dawes Plan the Reich is scheduled to pay in reparations $595,000,000 yearly, the Germans said they had been offered...
Since all sessions of the second Dawes Committee are secret−with no minutes or stenographic notes kept−the word of Germany is presumably as good as that of any other great power. "Believe...