Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, no amount of nose poking will disprove the plain fact, set forth in my original letter to you, that Coolidge ought to fly with Lindbergh. I repeat also that Roosevelt would have flown with Lindy like a shot, the day Lindbergh got home from Paris...
Budget. Apart from the daring program just set forth, the new Budget may be summarized thus: 1) Expenditures are estimated at ?806,195,000, and receipts at ?812.497,000, thus leaving an expected surplus of ?6,302,000; 2) Drastic economies will be effected by discharging 11,000 civil officials during the coming year; 3) The exemptions from the income tax already extended to parents, in proportion to the number of their children, are now sharply increased. Thus a single child, which brought an exemption of ?36 ($175), last year, is at present worth ?60 ($292) in exemptions. Additional children...
...three most powerful agents of death. Gorillas are much happier in southern lands, although they often adapt themselves to northern conditions. The New York Zoological Park has entertained gorillas for considerable lengths of time before sending them south; the Philadelphia Zoological Park has a grave gorilla in its younger set...
...source of power or destruction by exploding and releasing its energy. This happens in Nature's laboratory; can be observed, measured, photographed; but the atoms available for the experimental laboratory are already in a fairly stable form. Splitting them up would require more power than they would set free...
...Academy by an 8 to 1 score. Durell of Andover furnished the only victory for the Blue when he disposed of S. G. French '28 with a tally of 6-3, 6-1. The outstanding match was the defeat of Smyth by J. L. Ware '30 in a three-set match...