Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully and faithfully recorded them with scarcely the deviation of a comma, isn't it about time to release a new one? Really, a cosmopolite's (the term is yours) wife must have had two or three other experiences! EDITH TWAIN MCDERMOTT
Peace is a comparative term in Mexico. Last week occurred a battle between Federal troops and Catholic rebels in the town of Mexticac%#225;n, Jalisco. Some 50 rebels were killed, 50 more wounded. Nevertheless, President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed...
...During the presidential campaign, they remembered, The Saturday Evening Post said many a kind word about Nominee Hoover, in articles, in editorials. So now, asked observers of the magazine golf, is President Hoover about to return those favors by promising to write his autobiography for the Post after his term is ended? The observers recalled, not without amusement, that Editor Lorimer had evened the score with a long, well directed putt. While many were waiting with some interest the appearance of Citizen Coolidge's life history, Editor Lorimer quietly announced that he had signed up Citizen Smith for Post...
General Juan Vicente Gomez, for 20 years dictator of Venezuela, who recently refused to serve as President for another term, but moved by the earnest pleadings of the entire Venezuelan Congress, accepted the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan Army, last week found active use for his new title...
Ordinary murder brings life imprisonment at the new farm prison on the Isle of Pines. Sometimes long-term prisoners there are prompted to escape. Then they are shot quickly and carefully in the back...