Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they dwindled to black pinpoints in the camera's lens. At times blasts of snow and wind hid them completely from sight. Finally, 800 feet from the top, they were obscured by a stronger gust which lasted for some time. When the air was clear again there was no sign of the adventurers...
...Pennsylvania the legislature was hastily canvassing a hundred proposals for settlement. Distress in the mining regions grew more and more acute. In some places there were demonstrations by miners against coal washeries, which were still in operation. But there was no sign of any actual negotiations for settlement...
...bill, stormed: "If the Chamber goes on at this rate, the budget deficit will never be met by our scheme and we shall have to accept after all the Government scheme of a sales tax or tax on payments" (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante). Since the Chamber gave every sign of continuing to "go on" indefinitely, M. Lamoureux and the Socialist fiscal expert, M. Auriol finally walked out of the Chamber hurling shrill rebukes right and left...
...other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into the funeral parlors to be revived. Men and boys screeched and shouted from treetops, sign boards, roofs...
...having souls but are not allowed to come to white churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep on whooping for Genesis. . . . The colored Baptists are all hot fundamentalists. . . . Bible and Lynching Belt [Mississippi] . . . At the slightest sign of heresy the alarm-bells are rung and the culprit is in the fire. The prevailing theology is strongly supernatural, and even shows a demoniacal element. . . . In most parts of the South a Methodist is relatively liberal and civilized; compared to a good Baptist he often seems almost an agnostic...