Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governess Miriam A. Ferguson's prospects of escaping impeachment (TIME, Nov. 30, Dec. 7) brightened last week. To be sure one additional charge was leveled at her. The State Textbook Commission, of which she is chairman and of which her husband at her instigation was appointed clerk, recently made a contract for supplying all the spellers used in state schools for the next six years. The contract involves the greater part of $1,000,000. With four companies bidding, the contract was awarded to the highest bidder but against the advice of the Attorney General, who declared the contract...
...action of Mr. Foxen Cooper, "British Technical Adviser of Cine- matography," in permitting only a single cinema firm to photograph the signing of the Locarno Treaties, precipitated a furor of protest from rival firms. Mr. Cooper imperturbably remarked: "I am sure that this restriction was wisely adopted...
...Baldwin car knocked a farmer's cart, complete with horse and farmer, into the ditch. A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches. As ever, Mr. Baldwin rose to the occasion, imperturbable, good-natured. First he made sure that none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse and cart out of the ditch. Finally he climbed back into his damaged car, which was coaxed by the chauffeur at a walking pace...
...down and the report was that a Lieutenant Brown had brought him down, though at the same time machine gunners on the ground claimed that they had put his machine out of action. . . . "One thing is certain; his machine crashed with considerable violence on the ground, and it is sure that von Richthofen was dead before he crashed...
...Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, one De Mouche, farmer, put on his hunting cap, took his long gun in hand, and went out to visit his rabbit snares. Sure enough, in the first snare cowered a furry creature, pressing its soft white belly against the ground, upturning stricken, opalescent eyes. Farmer De Mouche chuckled. He laid his long shotgun upon the ground and bent to secure his game. But suddenly there was a scuffle behind him; another rabbit leaped out of the bush, sprang upon the shotgun's trigger. "BANG!" Farmer De Mouche received both barrels in his back. Bloody, mangled...