Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned over uneasily and pretended to be asleep. Great Britain, whose debt made up more than a third of the whole, was the first to awake. She gave bonds covering her debt, arranged its payment over a period of 60 years and began to pay. Four smaller debtors followed suit: Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Hungary. The others were slower...
Last week, he ordered two of his large estates to be divided and distributed among his tenants on a deferred payment plan. He hoped that other grandees would follow suit. His tenants prepared to hold a series of festivals in his honor...
...Olzewska, forthwith ousted for "unseemly behavior," brought suit against the management. Meanwhile the public reacted in her favor...
...retrieve (TIME, Nov. 3, 24) from Mr. Doheny contain probably as much as 200,000,000 barrels of oil. And it is just possible that the lawyers are right in their fear that so much as the winking of an official eyelid at the tanks would fatally prejudice their suit to recover...
...characters seem the metaphorical figures of the essay rather than the working, laughing children of life. His hero is an indecisive creature who turns radical in politics, finds that radicalism has caused his wife to commit suicide, finally follows suit. Rebecca West is the woman he loves, the woman who has sowed in his wife's mind the seeds of her decision to die. Rebecca jumps into the mill-race with the hero...