Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deserve such gratitude? Villagers explained. Dom Pérignon had been the abbey's cellar keeper. It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...
...Nationalist officials prattled of grandiose schemes. Most pompous was that of Wang Peh-chun, Minister of Communications. With his department $700,000,000 in debt, he propounded a "General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half a dozen other major cities. But he did not bother to show...
...Celaya the crowds were large. Maria wondered how she would escape if plans went awry, trembled at the thought of consequences, hesitated. Timidity was contagious. The men agreed that postponement was a wiser course...
...have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation's name: Soyus Sotsialisticheskekh Sovietskikh Respublik ("Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"). Tourists will pore over well-thought-out-schedules for "Seeing Moscow in Eight Days" or Leningrad in seven...
This bottled clue, picked up last week on Westport Beach, Aberdeen, Wash., was thought to determine the fate of the plane Miss Doran, carrying Mildred Doran, Michigan schoolmistress and two men, which disappeared last year during a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu (TIME...