Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal statement made by General Nobile, at Rome, ran: "If I should again return to the Arctic, I would use a dirigible identical with the Italia. . . *The flights made by the Italia constitute a record for flights over the Arctic regions. In three flights we covered over 5,500 miles in 134 hours actual flying time. This is about twice the number of hours flown by the Norge† and about three times the distance covered by Captain George H. Wilkins in his flights." (TIME, April...
...assured a job there. . . . But something more is needed. Remember that it was not by a slow, restricted process of immigration, confined to guaranteed employment, that the Dominions were founded and began their splendid history. . . . Our British workpeople . . . who want to try their luck in the Dominions . . . want to use their skill in that spirit of adventure which stirred in the old pioneers. Yet the call for adventurers does not come across to us now, as it used to in the old days. . . . By all means let the Dominion Governments get men from here to do agricultural work...
...presentation to King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn't lather," when he sought to use it "out of compliment to M. Lever...
...efforts to the swimming events or should he drop one event and play water polo? Said burly Coach William Bachrach of the water polo team: "Without Weissmuller the water polo team is punk; with him the team has a chance against any team, and what's the use of paying $15,000 to bring the water polo team here unless you give them a real chance for the championship!" Coach Bachrach won his point and Weissmuller was put on the water polo team. The French athletes caused a flurry when they refused to participate in the opening parade because...
...will and legacy to the Soviet Union; but has been suppressed in Russia by Dictator Stalin because it contains the following damning passage: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I [Lenin] am not sure that he always knows how to use that power. . . . "Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who differs from Stalin...