Word: though
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though the numbers of tractors and automobiles in France has increased more than 700% since 1913, figures published by the French Ministry of Agriculture last week showed no decrease in horseflesh in the same period. Over 3,000,000 horses worked French farms, pulled French carts last week, almost exactly the same number...
...conquered Galicia for Austria, overran Serbia. In 1916 he occupied Rumania. In 1917 he smashed the Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military...
...periods, eleven Carnegie Technicians played as though every one of them rated the All American. They scored 13 first downs and 13 points. The Trojans, fidgeting in the line and scrambling over each other after the ball was snapped, were lucky to get two passes over to tie the score at the end of the half. In the third quarter Carnegie Tech started again but Eyth fumbled and Trojan Tappaan recovered...
...meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended at the last session of the State Legislature. Fundamentalists who resented the use of the word "Baptist...
This is no rogues' gallery, though with another guide it might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report; in the oblique way in which such attempts often work out, he succeeds in showing himself as one of the most sympathetic of inquiring reporters...