Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because most Britons dearly love such quaint phenomena of Nature as eclipses, tens of thousands of excursionists aped the expected royal pilgrimage. At the last moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out...
For the next few days, Sir Oliver was deluged with mail. By tens of thousands thinkers (and guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the...
Nor is that all of the story. Anyone who knows anything at all about business libraries knows that the only way by which they can be made of proper service to business men, is to have them expertly catalogued and conducted by a staff of specialists. The business man who...
A few people had seen how it would be, but the actuality sur- passed prognostication. The Chancellor's oratorical census took on a new significance. Capital left Austria in billions, legally and by the connivance of avaricious Christians. For a time Christian gold flowed in from the outer world but...
Last week another vast business passed, from the family that built it, toward the hands of the public. Eldridge R. Johnson, the Camden, N. J., mechanic who 32 years ago took the squeak out of toy phonographs like the ones he saw at Coney Island; his son, E. R. Fenimore...