Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sovereign states which owed $144,000,000 to the U. S. on June 15 last week only small, green, watery Finland, self-styled ''Land of 40,000 Lakes," showed sufficient character to pay her War debt in full...
...listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland. George V, who had driven straight in from Windsor Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight English...
University of Pittsburgh Arthur Vining Davis .... Sc.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania ... LL.D. President Josiah Kirby Lilly of Eli Lilly & Co. (chemicals) .... LL.D. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, Chicago surgeon .... LL.D...
...Famed clippers: James Baines, Red Jacket, Lightning, Cutty Sark, Sovereign of the Seas. Best time from Liverpool to Australia: the Thermopylae's 63 days, 18 hours. Later and much slower were the iron & steel wool clippers, the still later four-masted barques competing with steam...
Equally noteworthy was the debtor against whom this committee will take action: the sovereign State of Arkansas...