Word: ups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mich., Patrolman Charles Skelly told the guilty driver to come along to the police station to pay the few dollars damage. The driver yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead...
Hay bulged up from 1,240 millions to 1,349 millions; potatoes from 251 millions to 470 millions; garden truck from 300 millions to 322 millions; fruit from 480 millions to 506 millions. Most valuable truck: tomatoes, $50,777,000. Most valuable fruit: apples, $184,107,000. Tobacco crop: $285...
Grigorie J. Sokolnikov, newly appointed Soviet Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London fortnight ago, bought a new dress suit in which to present his credentials to King George, and waited. Eight days passed. Conservatives, chuckling at a chance to embarrass the Labor Government, stood up in Parliament and loudly asked...
¶ That the Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hangs in fact by a thread, and may fall after the Christmas recess perhaps during the Five Power Naval Conference, was evident last week when the bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came...
Some weeks ago Sir Edward browsed through a volume of poems by medieval George Gascoigne (1535-77) entitled A hnndreth Sundrie Floures bound up in one small Posie. Gathered Partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarke, Ariosto and others; and partely by invention out of...