Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America that today the dependent class is relatively large; realizing these conditions, the Scandinavian people have set on foot a movement to keep the best men and women at home, and such a movement has also been begun in the United States. Such new racial consciousness is a hopeful sign, and with it before our eyes we need not despair." By such conclusion, Dr. Osborn puts a controversial colophon to his otherwise straightforward exposition of man's rise to Parnassus. Men are sure to debate his point acrimoniously...
...negroes being, wounded; that, upon his being taken to his home, a number of negroes in the camp, enraged thereby, started a retaliatory move against the strikers, and that, after this fracas was over, one of the negroes, at the point of a gun, was compelled to sign a so-called confession dictated to suit the purposes of the striking miners...
...pronouncement tentatively recognized for insertion into the preamble of a stuffed-shirt treaty draft reorganizing the Pan-American Union.-Last week U. S. pressure resulted in the striking out of Pueyr-redon's preamble clause. From Buenos Aires came, allegedly, instructions that he should knuckle under and sign the treaty draft...
...infallible sign of a really great murder is the appearance of the Western Union Co.'s giant portable electric switchboard, capable of despatching 20,000 words an hour over 180 wires. This behemoth is also used for such spectacles as Dempsey-Tunney fights, otherwise it sulks in storage...
...plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign language they said, No, they never went so high, but they knew...