Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Kansas, William Allen White, who stood up on an anti-Klan flivver and matched himself against both Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor, ran third in the tri-partite race. Said he afterwards of the odd tens of thousands of people who sup. ported him: "They are good people...
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY?Francis L. Wellman ?Macmillan ($4.00). This volume is addressed "to the tens of thousands of men that are called each year to serve their first term in the jury box." Its object is stated by Author Wellman to be "to acquaint jurors with the profound...
Camillo Castiglioni, "Austrian Stinnes," went bankrupt. A few years ago he was a comparatively poor man, but through the depreciation of the crown he amassed a fortune reckoned in tens of millions of dollars.
Floods in China made millions of people homeless, drowned some 50,000 persons, submerged tens of thousands of villages. So ran a report from Shanghai.
In Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying. They were employed by the saucer's lessee, Promoter Rickard. He expects tens of thousands of customers to go and sit in it on Sept. 11 to see 425 pounds, of humanity...