Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a second sign of the weather brewing. In Exeter, at Killerton Park, there was rain pouring out of the sky, but special trains, omnibuses, wagons, automobiles, drove straight to the spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
...even more important, the Premier had had the Governor General sign an order dissolving the 15th Canadian Parliament. He did so according to his own account, because the country was faced with four new issues which could be disposed of only by a new parliament and a party with a substantial majority in the House. The four issues are: 1) transportation-plans for a combination in ocean carrying; 2) immigration undertaking of a vigorous distributing policy; 3) reduction of taxation; 4) senate reform-making the senate elective instead of appointive and depriving it of all but a suspensory veto...
...occupant will be permitted to smoke on the premises. All occupants must buy at least $500 worth of stock, and sign the pledge. No Sunday newspapers will be read in any of the 4,500 bedrooms...
Siegfried. It has taken the "Made in Germany" sign seven years to come back and its sway is still restricted. In motion pictures it becomes with this production an established mark of excellence. Siegfried is certainly one of the best pictures ever shown...
Laymen held it to be significant that although all of the students tested appeared to finish in good condition, several had for a long time been in the habit of sleeping nightly for only six hours or less. One, Mr. Monroe, who remained awake for 80 hours almost without sign of fatigue, is an individual of such exceptional intelligence that he may well be called supernormal. He passed the Army Alpha test with a score of 196, a mark reached by only one-fifth of one per cent of college students...