Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago a Dutch engineer swore that he had seen these monsters. Men disbelieved him. They might not have believed Aviator Cobham. But two years ago William Douglas Burden of Manhattan led out an expedition, found the creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...
Convened after a fortnight's recess; swore in two new members; authorized the swearing in of a new member ill in a hospital...
Honored the credentials of Bronson Murray Cutting, appointee for the seat of the late Andrieus Aristieus Jones of New Mexico; swore and seated him on the Republican side...
...swore new members, notified the President and the House, elected a new chaplain...
...Newlon, with a proclamation of martial law in his pocket, sent for militia, tanks, a medical unit. Governor Adams pronounced the Columbine district to be in a state of insurrection. He and his witnesses absolved Mr. Scherf and the state troopers for their deeds of "self-defense." The strikers swore out warrants for the arrest of their comrades' "murderers," asserting that their part in the Columbine episode had been peaceable. They had only wanted to go to the Columbine post office, they said. Wobbly Adam Bell and others were arrested to prevent further post office visiting...