Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secretarial post in the U. S. Embassy at Vienna. From 1884 to 1893 he was a Secretary at the Court of St. James's. Then came four years of private life (coinciding with the Democratic Cleveland Administration). In 1897 President McKinley sent him back to London where he remained till 1905, in which year President Roosevelt appointed him Ambassador to Italy. From 1907 to 1909 he was Ambassador to France...
...Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November or for some time after...
...force till life decays...
...note in the general discussion which has flared up noticeably in the last year or two concerning the perplexing question as to the distribution of the cost of education, was sounded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. at the Commencement luncheon at Brown University. The question till now has been largely in the minds of educators who have been concerned with the probler of increasing the income already established through gifts and endowments. These contributions in their present or even an increasing ratio have been taken for granted. Now comes the prophetic warning from the head of a family whose contributions...
...Besides, after this speech I propose to place upon my tongue not the usual Athenian bull, but a couple of oxen, and I shall not speak again till next year...