Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the Heavens fall about me; Bishops and TIME oppose each other, not on opinions but on facts. Be a reportorial Laura Jean Libbey and set me right. You see, my family are, have been, and probably will be Methodists though the next "Battle of the Century" be staged in the local pulpit...
Seventeen years ago, the fast, graceful Mauretania outstripped her sister liners, logged 676 nautical miles in 24 hours. On a swift dash to Honolulu in 1923, the light cruiser Omaha set a 24-hr, record of 690 miles and linked the U. S. with Hawaii in 75 hours, 40 minutes, 40 seconds...
After this abstruse discourse the air was cleared by famed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, ruddy as a round full moon, matter of fact as the taxes he imposes. Crisply Mr. Churchill told the M. P.s that they, as a body of laymen, should not set themselves up as ecclesiastical arbiters, but should pass the Book in deference to the expert endorsement already accorded it by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and a large majority of the Bishops of the Church of England...
...sold two magazines, Smart Set and McClure's, to James R. Quirk...
...masses against "black" capitalists-these things young Hearst had observed in the methods of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World; and he practiced them in San Francisco. Later, in 1895, when his father left him a $17,000,000 estate, he bought the New York Journal and set out to outdo Pulitzer...