Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The American Woman's Association had wanted money for a clubhouse, and busy Misses Anne Morgan and Miriam K. Oliver had arranged the shadow races as part of a two-day program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed- a shepherd...
Undismayed, John Wesley and his "Methodists" went into the towns, the prisons, the open fields, stirring the stagnancy of the church of the day with a living word. Their word was Church of England, until opposition moved Wesley to ordain his own ministers and proclaim his personal interpretation of the...
¶ "It is a tremendous inspiration to the tens of thousands in our ranks to know that we have in our Chief Executive one who is unfaltering in upholding the beneficent law for prohibition so challenged today by sinister forces. Permit me, Mr. President, as the leader of an army...
Reports from Fez indicate that on retiring from Ajdir before the Spanish advance, Abd-el-Krim fled to the all but inaccessible Beni Arous Mountains, the most rugged of the Atlas Range. There, with his brother, Sidi Muhammed, and some tens of thousands of faithful tribesmen, he is reported to...
France's most successful colonial administrator put a period to his career. For the last 13 years Marshal Lyautey has been building up Morocco. He pacified the major portion of it, consolidated the French protectorate, made it pay its way, put tens of thousands of Moroccan soldiers on the...