Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman has had a military convention with France to protect him since 1920. Until Locarno (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925, et seq.) he was trying desperately to get a similar military convention with Britain?failed. Then at Locarno he seemed to have obtained all he wanted, security...
...Glasgow the shrewd city fathers debated hotly a similar matter: whether they would appropriate £15,000 ($72,900) to entertain the Sovereigns next July. Cried Councilman Douglas MacConaughty, striking the table with his cane: " 'Twud na' be worth it! Ha' we a brass farthin' too many in the common good funds?" His peers, more hospitable, voted the appropriation...
...Oliver settled down to sort and examine his large mail. The press echoed with skeptical reflections on the laws of chance and Lodge logic. Many people recall that similar tests held lately by conservative Dr. G. H. Estabrook, onetime Harvard psychologist, had produced no evidence for mental telepathy...
...Hempstead, L. I., Thomas O'Donnell, 18, high school senior, wrote a letter to his mother explaining he felt he was being a financial hindrance to her and his sister; wrote appointments of schoolmates as pallbearers; marched to the stage of the school auditorium, took out a revolver similar to one he had brandished lately in the school play, (Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers) and shot himself...
Emotional sequences proceed with similar distinctness, subtle as the Russians, lucid as the French. Twilight is the tragedy of Dietz von Egloff driven to suicide by his thirst for a real fate among peers immured by aristocratic routine. He takes the wife, then the life, of his best friend. From Fastrade, whom he loves, he can evoke nothing but pity. She takes his body home through a spring morning with birds and sunlight making a festival of death...