Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish-so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune the first day (in New Orleans); heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth...
...Using nothing but silence, John Christian Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was elected Mayor of Detroit. Now that Herbert Hoover is President, silence is still fashionable, but not so popular. Neither is Col. Lindbergh. And Mayor Lodge, still using silence as his chief campaign trick, ran third last week in Detroit's mayoralty primary. The leader: John W. Smith, mayor before Lodge...
...Third problem was rounding up the prisoners, who, out on bail, were still conducting their businesses and living in their homes. Several sent brothers, friends or other proxies to answer to their names and numbers. One morning 13 prisoners arrived several minutes after proceedings had started. Judge Knox had to threaten to keep all the accused in jail until the conclusion of the trial if attendance records did not show an improvement...
...note invites powers to participate in a conference at London in the third week of January next, bids them come prepared to discuss the limitations of all types of surface war boats, the abolition of the submarine. Japan immediately signified acceptance, though her formal reply to "Uncle Arthur" was delayed. France and Italy, who rely on undersea boats as their chief naval arm, were expected to send acceptances containing strongest reservations against even discussing abolitions of subwarfare...
...place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most of the balustrade, marched away chanting Belgium's national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded from plaster of Paris. With these in place the new Library of Louvain was formally dedicated on July 4, 1928. But soon afterward one Edmond Morren, father of two, citizen of Louvain, climbed upon the roof of the Library just before dawn clutching a stone-mason...