Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spies. The Government of Afghanistan has made official, diplo matic protest against Colonel Lawrence's spying. The exploits which Lawrence describes in his best-seller Revolt in the Desert brand him as a spy ten times over, if one accepts the definition of a spy set forth in Article XXIX of the Hague Convention...
...does not leave by the door opposite where he came in. If he did, he would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...great ant hill which is Manhattan, three sets of ant tunnels furrow under the Hudson River and emerge in the free air of New Jersey. One set of tunnels belongs to the Pennsylvania R. R.; another set is the Holland Vehicular Tunnels, completed two years ago; the third set is called the Hudson Tubes, a commuting device...
...last week a train of ten carloads of commuters slid down into a Hudson Tube from the Manhattan side. A fire of waste oil was burning on the tracks ahead. The motorman put on speed to pass over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
...that 1,400,000 Britons are out of work. Premise Two consisted of the speaker's royal testimony that on his recent travels to every part of the Globe he has personally seen that British salesmanship and merchandizing methods overseas are still far behind the standard set by competition. (No one doubts that this was so, prior to 1914, when German salesmen were stealing British business from Siam to South America; but H. R. H. was bold indeed to charge that British salesmanship still lags behind...