Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States Navy to the Japanese Admiralty and to the families of those lost." The collisions were the second disaster in the Japanese navy to occur this August and the sixth to occur within seven years, five of which took place in the month of August. During this period the toll of lives has been more than...
...opinion, assented to by Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. He wrote: "A theatre is a private enterprise which, in its relation to the public, differs, obviously, widely, both in character and degree, from a grain elevator standing at the gateway of commerce and exacting toll. . . . Sales of theatre tickets bear no relation to the commerce of the country. . . . And, certainly, a place of entertainment is in no legal sense a public utility; and, quite as certainly, its activities are not such that their enjoyment can be regarded under any conditions from the point of view...
When statistics covering the Panama Canal tolls for January were released last week, His Majesty's Government was discovered to have paid $18,500 toll to the Government of the U. S. in order that the Renown, a huge and potent warcraft, might pass through the Canal carrying the Duke and Duchess of York, sailing toward Australia (TIME...
...Colonial Office pointed with pride to the decrease in human deaths due to wild animals from 3,605 in 1923, to 2,587 in 1924 and to only 1,974 last year. Curiously enough the only species of animal to take a greater toll of human life this year than last was the elephant. The number of tigers killed was 1,609, leopards 4,660, bears 2,485, wolves...
...Sophomores outplayed their opponents completely during the first half, but were prevented from scoring by penalties, which took extremely heavy toll of yard age, and prevented any sustained offense...