Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered his bags packed, and set out for Geneva to enlist the Council's aid. Simultaneously, Marshal Pilsudski was said to have declared that he might "at any moment" hurry after Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, who was charged with representing his country on the Council. Even stolid Swiss were appalled at the possibility that Premiers Pilsudski and Valdemaras, both choleric characters, might meet like colliding comets in the musty League Secretariat building. Meanwhile many a U. S. citizen asked: "What's the trouble between Lithuania and Poland?" Perennial Quarrel. Poland and Lithuania are both states which carved...
...property of Lord Byron and was used by him when he wrote Don Juan. This fact I know. . . ." In 1890 one William Warren, a London journalist, offered it to the Chicago World's Fair for $25. After the World's Fair, the desk was purchased by a Swiss clockmaker named Uhry, living in Chicago...
...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
...reception followed the laying of a wreath of dahlias on the grave of Italy's Unknown Soldier, and parading to "The Star Spangled Banner," "Piave" and "Giovinezza." Ascending the snowy marble steps of the Apostolic Palace, the Legionaries, all dressed in their evening clothes, were met by smiling Swiss Guards whom Vatican etiquette forbade to salute. The Pope came forth in white. The Legionaries knelt. Commander Savage and a few others were presented. The Pope examined the Legion flag, made a speech...
Beside Ostheimer there were seven other members of the party: John de Laittre '29, of Minneapolis; W. R. Maclaurin '29, of Boston; Hans Further and Jean Weber, Swiss guides; Don Hoover, cook; Adam Joachim and Ken Allen, horse wranglers. The main climbing party consisted of Ostheimer and Fuhrer, while the rest were organized into support parties engaged in relaying food and supplies from Jasper to the climbing camps...