Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enough to set hairs a-standing on pious Mohammedan heads would be a proposal to cover the broad, flat floors of mosques with hateful, heathen pews...
...approached by Comrade Unschlicht, a responsible official of the G. P. U. or Secret Police, and offered a round sum to pose as a spy employed by Great Britain and Norway. He was assured that, after being publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he would be secretly set free. Meanwhile the Soviet State would have proved that it was menaced by Capitalist Spies...
...taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor, Mr. R. F. Johnston, he escaped the guard set over him by Feng, fled to the Japanese concession at Tientsin and still resides there as "Mr. Henry...
...Lear Black* famed as the U. S. businessman who has taxied by air the largest number of miles, last fortnight gave up temporarily his most extensive taxi-tour. With one valet, two Dutch pilots and a sturdy triple-engined Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter...
...Cornell, under the old master "Pop" Courtney, set the mark...