Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the inventor was on active duty, because he had been educated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Government expense. Justice Stafford held that the Sibley case had closed to question the right of service men to take out patents. Hoping perhaps to overthrow the Sibley precedent as well as escape paying the Fiske damages, the Government prepared to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court...
From the Bureau of Engraving & Printing to the great Federal Reserve Banks throughout the land, from the Federal Reserve Banks down to the tiniest of local banks have lately been moving hundreds of thousands of what looked like shoeboxes, neatly wrapped. But no shoes were ever so well guarded with firearms, were ever so eagerly received by bank tellers. All the boxes contained money-crisp new paper currency which the U. S. had, over a two-year period, manufactured to substitute for the bills now in circulation. For the first time in 66 years the U. S. was changing...
...Senator Smoot accepted a sliding scale tariff for this most controversial item in the bill. Because his State, Utah, is a great producer of beet sugar; because the Mormon church, his church, is vitally interested in beet sugar, the sugar schedule was to have been Senator Smoot's well-protected pet. That he favored a sliding scale which he admitted would produce rates lower than those proposed in the House bill (3? per lb.), made even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed for details...
...King-Emperor is one of the six or seven finest wing shots in England. To console him for the loss of the Scotch shooting, the Sandringham gamekeeper announccd that Sandringham coverts are unusually well-stocked this year. Last week Lord Stamfordham, the King's private secretary, ordered a pair of guns a few ounces lighter than those His Majesty used before his illness, from Purdey, famed gunsmith...
...troublesome buttons than most men has Dean Inge. As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat. His waistcoat-apron buttons down the side. His legs must be encased in gaiters which button all the way up, ending well above the knee...