Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shed not far from the new monument M. le Ministre counted 1,400 skeletons, bits of uniform still clinging to their bleached bones. A rusty airplane hangar contained 9,800 more, piled in dusty, loose-covered boxes, jumbled together under tattered sheets. Reporters ferreting for themselves discovered that thousands of other bodies lie buried so shallowly that each Spring thaw brings many to the surface. The Minister of Pensions stayed in Verdun only an hour, returned thoughtfully to Paris. On the train he brightened somewhat...
...trembling candles on a table. Between them Christ upon the Cross. Against the wall in the uniform of an Admiral a man of shadows with a long blue jaw sits, almost invisible, upon the Throne of Spain. Palace guards in costumes that have not changed since the 16th Century usher into the shadowy Throne Room a pack of gentlemen, most of them incongruous in 20th Century boiled shirts. Their leader, the Captain-General of Spain's Navy, a man with close-cropped hair and clipped mustache who does not look his 70 years, advances, and humbly bows...
...Butler turned to me. He said, 'This fellow is disgracing his uniform, but I hate to arrest him just after arriving at this station...
...During the past year legislators have likewise been busy in traffic matters. Added hope for real national uniformity in regulations resulted from the meetings of the third national conference on street and highway safety sponsored by the United States Department of Commerce. The conference reviewed and confirmed practically all of the uniform provisions of earlier conferences. An organized drive is under way by organizations associated with conference to obtain passage of laws requiring the licensing of drivers in those States which have no such provisions...
...national conference promulgated a new uniform speed regulation which is believed to mark a great advance in this difficult field of legislation. The new rule provided that no vehicle shall be operated so as to endanger or collide with persons or property on the high-way. Speed limits are not fixed and a speed which endangers warrants conviction even though it may be very low. On the other hand, where no danger is involved, an operator may drive at relatively high speeds without fear of arrest...