Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapter XXI. These puzzles Detective Lippmann set himself to solve. Swishing-big words around like Philo Vance, he one-two-threed his argument, hauled in the suspects, pointed his finger at the guilty man at the end of Chapter XXI. Said he: Any man who has been President of the United States, "or only vice president of a barber shop," will, when it comes time for him to go, wish to feel that no one can bear to have him leave. Therefore, "there never was a President who did not want to be elected for a second term, and never...
After 70 hours, while farmers profited by selling parking space to onlookers, Dr. Poulter and the crew managed to get Penguin back on the road. Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's third South Pole expedition, all set to sail, impatiently awaited the monster in Boston. The little motorship North Star, loaded with sled dogs and supplies, was due to shove off for Philadelphia, where she was to take aboard airplanes, proceed to a New Year's Day rendezvous in Little America with the expedition's flagship, Bear...
...until December 1917 was the Allied Maritime Transport Council set up, and it did not start functioning until March 1918. Subordinate to it were a score of committees on food, munitions, raw materials. But all these bodies were purely advisory, had no authority to enforce their decisions...
...designed to become harmless after breaking away from their anchorages, as required by international convention. Certainty came when, driven by gales, mines of German make washed ashore in quantities along the British North Sea coast and in Belgium, bashing into piers and bulkheads with savage detonations, frightful flotsam set afloat by the nation whose leader promised that Britain would now be spoken to "in language she can understand...
...Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although one of New Guinea's highest peaks is named for her), but she can hardly fail to appreciate what a windfall came to her little country the day in 1602 when daring adventurers of the Dutch East India Co. set out on a five-year voyage to claim the islands...