Word: thereto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After five days of this wanton decapitation General Li Pao-chang posted up a bland proclamation: "I am touched by the numerous executions by my subordinates. They were prompted thereto by my orders to execute on the spot, without question and without trial. This order I now rescind...
...harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor...
...Captain's knowledge of medicine, might create the wrong impression among civilians?fathers, mothers or other relatives of officers and enlisted men ?as to the medical care the personnel of the Navy are given. Practically every ship of our Navy has one or more medical officers attached thereto, or is at all times supplied with hospital corpsmen...
...member thereof to the effect that he will join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduate or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...order that they may more efficiently function in the enforcement of the national prohibition act, any state, county, or municipal officer may be appointed, at a nominal rate of compensation, as prohibition officer of the Treasury Department to enforce the provisions of the national prohibition act and acts supplemental thereto in states and territories, except in those states having constitutional or statutory provision against state officers holding office under the Federal Government...