Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Landing his own craft on the Bay, Chief Boatswain Kahle taxied about for an hour, found no trace of Lieutenants Victor F. Marinelli and George Lehman, nor of Machinist Mates L. E. Poyner and George M. McMichaels. The U. S. S. Teal, Navy tender, patrolled all that night but its searchlight picked out nothing beyond fragments of wing fabric, pieces of fuselage. Against lightning, rarely an accurate enemy, flyers of steel birds have no defense...
...ineptitude" of Sir Auckland Geddes (onetime [ 1920-24 ] British Ambassador at Washington), the "tender bosom" of Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the "ignorance, stupidity or arrogance" of the British Commonwealth of Nations-all were last week rebuked by a patriotic U. S. woman-Miss Sophy Stanton, moderately famed granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin McMasters Stanton...
...learning, he soon was able to start a photo-engraving business of his own, in Murphysboro, 111. On pieces of specially prepared paper, seven and one-eighth inches long, three and one-eighth inches wide, he made minutely detailed engravings, including the arresting words: "This certificate is a legal tender in the amount thereof in payment of all debts and dues public and private. Acts of March 14, 1900, as amended...
These are questions now being asked in Washington, D. C., and many an asker has also his answer. For rumor persists that Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg will shortly tender his resignation, that Ambassador Charles MacVeagh will be named as his successor. Tale-spreaders maintain also that Secretary Kellogg's continued ill health may in itself constitute a reason for his resignation...
...aged 34, who had lately lost his mother. This is not church ritual but the inner feeling of people like ourselves. Come, let us understand." They wanted to stand up and cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited, meditated, applauded thoughtfully, gave Conductor Furtwangler a wreath and went home full of peace instead of excitement. Perhaps they would see him again in a year; perhaps...