Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Conn., into the grey depths of Long Island Sound, went another sistership, the S-19. Navy discipline required the 519 to make a practice run, similar to the S-4's schedule. The S-19's crew took their posts, made the run and no mishap occurred...
...President Coolidge decided to try again for a naval disarmament parley similar to the unfruitful Geneva Conference initiated by him last year? He had not. But so thought many a reader who depends upon the Times to say what it means without levity...
...Harvey Hargreaves, British subject. Eighteen months ago Mr. Hargreaves was jailed on an eight-year sentence for deserting from the French Foreign Legion. Last fortnight he was still in jail; but a U. S. deserter from the same French unit, one Bennett J. Doty, had been released from a similar eight-year sentence through pressure by the U. S. State Department (TIME, Dec. 19). The Eagle, it seemed, had squawked to some purpose. Last week the British Foreign Office followed this example. The French Government, having yielded Deserter Doty, could not but yield Deserter Hargreaves. He, lucky, strode forth...
With the institutes of the steel, oil, leather, textile, copper and other industries before them as examples, executives of U. S. sugar refining companies, and their lawyers, met in Manhattan last week and decided to form a similar institute for the sugar industry. Whether producers, shippers and distributors of sugar would be admitted to the institute, the refiners did not decide...
...obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have a special charm. The regiment of versifiers whom fame has fled is a fine and comfortable company...