Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deducting from this loss some items of unassignable revenue, the actual loss is about $40,000,000 a year, according to this calculation. The obvious thing to do, under such circumstances, is to boost the rates on services which show large losses?wipe out the deficits on second and third class mail and on registered matter. Then not only would the deficit be made up, but also nearly enough revenue would be provided to make possible the proposed pay increase...
...Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining the fate of soldiers and civilians reported missing. He was, through his personal organization, enabled to help stricken relatives in every way possible by forwarding parcels and organizing charities. Another thing, not at all well known, was that the King offered to lead an Army himself in the Allied cause. The offer was refused as clearly impossible if Spain were to maintain a neutral attitude. And, in last proof of his devotion to the Allies, at a time when the fortunes...
...laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...
...bars, lunchrooms, paddocks, wherever sportsmen gather, you see them-frayed bravos with cauliflower cars, rakish noses, thick necks, entreating eyes. They catch your glance, they wink, edge over. It is no drink that they want, no sandwich, no news about a pretty thing in the second race. They want to impart something. For these are the fallen kings of boxing,' they who have knocked out champions and never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge...
...continued, "so that you will get a rather good chance to observe all the phenomena of the total eclipse. It will begin at four minutes past 8 o'clock on the morning of January 24, and will be at its height at 15 minutes past 9 o'clock. One thing of great interest is to observe the peculiar images cast by the sun during the partial period. A ray of light through a knot hole, for instance, will cast a crescent shaped image on the floor instead of the ordinary round...