Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
...considerable tract of land" is worth in this instance $250,000,000. The Privy Council awarded it to Newfoundland a fortnight ago, and quashed the claim which Canada has pressed for 25 years that Newfoundland should have only the "edge or margin" and Canada the hinterland or "inland" coast, rich in vast mineral deposits unsuspected by George...
...geniuses, masterminds; tell and retell the story of their amazing career. O. P. Van Sweringen was born 47 years ago, his brother two years later, in Wooster, Ohio. Denied extensive education, they sold newspapers, saved, moved to Cleveland, worked as office boys, saved more. Borrowing, they purchased a wooded tract near Cleveland, pronounced it the future residence district. Borrowing more, they made their land accessible by rapid transit, bought more land. They still buy. Twelve square miles of residence property (homes worth $25,000 or more) have been or are being developed through their office. Their practice in talking sparingly...
Some thousands of dogs grew vexed, last week, in the famed Kutta Nagar (Dog City) built near Baroda by the rich and pious Hindu Shet Arjunlal. He, conscious that it is a Hindu sin for man or beast to kill, has impounded dogs innumerable in a 300-acre tract completely floored with cement so that not even a mouse can get in to be killed. There pups eat pancakes-or starve-and big dogs get no better fare than nutted biscuits. Last week the dogs rebelled, as by a secret animal accord, sat back on their haunches and poured...
...rallying the believing hosts of the world around their faith," i.e. the Scopes anti-evolution trial (precipitated by anti- Fundamentalists)-ever since the Great Commoner died "on the battlefield" (Dayton, Tenn.), hard-headed men have been promoting a Bryan Memorial University (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925). On a 26-acre tract across the road from the house in which Mr. Bryan breathed his last, this "sacred enterprise" is already under construction. It may be ready for 400 students next autumn...