Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Amanullah's justification will be sufficient to appease the wrathy Ulemas remains to be soon, though it is to be hoped that they will take steps to see that the traditions of Afghanistan are not lightly treated, that those past generations of Afghans may not have cause to turn over in their graves. The problem is a delicate one. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown", but how much more precarious it is for a royal head that wears a white top hat when it should be a fez, or at least its "Afghan equivalent...
Each morning thousands of Britons turn to the Telegraph's sporting page and scan attentively whatever appears above the enigmatic signature "B. B." Under that monogram writes jovial, astute Benjamin Bennison?and on the staff there have been constantly not a few journalists of nearly equal fame...
...believe that a program of worship has ever been devised which can turn a nervous, tired and irritable person into a devout worshipper without any effort on the part of the individual...
...terms, more than $600,000,000 during the last ten years. Last week one of the most important ones, the New York Joint Stock Land Bank, became more important by purchasing another important one, the New Jersey Joint Stock Land Bank of Newark. The New York bank in its turn is controlled by bankers from Cleveland, who also control the Ohio-Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank. Notable among the Cleveland men are Parmely W. Herrick (son of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and president of the Herrick Co., investment bankers), Samuel L. McCune (investment banker), James Arthur House (president, Guardian Trust...
...greatest experts of billiard history, led and increased his lead. Late in the match he saw Cochran score 196 points in a run; was not impressed. Schaefer is the only player alive who has run out a tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...