Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declaration of war by Congress authorized U. S. participation in the sorry North Russia expedition, which began in the summer of 1918. President Wilson consented on his own responsibility to the use of U. S. troops on this remote frontier. The original Allied purpose was to offer a new threat to Germany on the East, following the collapse of Russia as a fighting force, to guard supplies, to keep U-boats out of the cold White Sea. But objectives became muddled. The Allied troops numbered some 27,000, of which 5,100 were U. S. soldiers. Twenty thousand "White" Russians...
...first "talkie" conviction in a U. S. court. Said Judge James Gay Gordon Jr. in admitting the use of the device to the trial: "Such a confession is more valuable than a mere oral or signed...
...Paul said (1 Timothy 5:23): Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. . . . The Saviour, whose first miracle on earth was to turn water into wine, once said: No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, the old is better (Luke...
...When railroads use freight cars belonging to other lines, they pay $1 per day. Last week the Boston & Maine purchased 2,000 new box cars, costing $5,000,000, from the Mellons' Standard Steel Car Co. Unique in the deal was the fact that the B. & M. will pay in daily installments of $1 on each car plus 5% on the unpaid balance...
...these houses are endowed, and even those that are owned outright will be a terrific financial burden to their owners, if it is impossible to make the houses self-sustaining through rental income. Very few organizations are financially independent to the extent that they can afford to use their houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that initiation fees will have to be increased to so exorbitant a degree that membership will off that account be not desirable. The alternative will be for the fraternities and clubs to disband, after selling the old homestead...