Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hague Settlement. Two days more were needed to whip the Midnight agreement into formal shape. A third day saw it signed by all the delegations at a final plenary session, after which the Conference contentedly adjourned. Basically the settlement thus reached is twofold financial and political...
Second Day. Over the grubby villages of Western Russia, onward over the forests in the East moved the fabulous grey shape. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst explorer-correspondent reported: "Astonished people rushed to the streets in night attire and, scared and frightened, I judge, almost out of their wits, just as quickly rushed back to their homes." The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Ural Mountains and then was in Asia...
...Mischievous Norse Fire-God of a shape transformable at will. Thor, God of War and Thunder, chained him up when he grew too obstreperous. But Loki will come again to lead forth the hosts of Hel at Twilight of the Gods...
...country seems to be in very good shape. I was delighted to see the large surplus that remained in the Treasury . . . which was substantially the last fiscal year of my administration...
Land Boom. The land boom aftermath consists in the principal of notes, made in boom times, falling due and not being paid. Frozen assets in the shape of uncollectable paper have put many a Florida bank in a tight position...