Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Treasury a cash balance of exactly three lei (one and four-fifths of a cent). He found a national deficit of nine billion lei ($54,000,000) ; and that advances already made to the State by the National Bank of Rumania greatly exceeded the legal limit. In short, the new Prime Minister charged his predecessors with every sort of gross malfeasance. They had kept on the State payroll, he said, hundreds of persons now dead and some who were never born. Dolefully he admitted that it might prove temporarily impossible to meet the government payroll charges for the current...
Over Villa Maria last week pirouetted for a short space a cyclone. Railroad ties were torn from the ground. Houses crumpled, sagged...
...opening kickoff was fumbled by Yale and a Harvard recovery led to a 40-yard march down the field and a short plunge by T.G. Upton '31 over the line for a touchdown. Goal was missed. After this, the Eli scrubs rallied and forced at will through the Crimson line. They did not begin to score, however, until the second half when Cruikshank and Whiting started plunging through for big gains. The former scored in five minutes and kicked goal for the lead. The only other Crimson score came toward the conclusion of the game when G.L. Lewis...
...short blackboard talk at which a number of new plays were given out, followed by a dummy scrimmage and signal drill comprised the general outline of the workout. The nature of the plays and the personnel of team A, besides the injury list, was kept under cover. Whether this is an indication that some change is being contemplated is a matter for conjecture...
Shadows of Fear is a testimonial to a short, awkward, massive, bearded, sharp-nosed shadow, that of Émile Zola from whose novel, Thérèse Raquin, the story is accurately taken. How a girl connives with her lover to push her invalid husband into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown...