Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft, as President, had had the Smithsonian, a quasi-Federal institution, under his authority. As a learned gentleman he wished it well. So, believing that the Institution would get handsome royalties, he subscribed...
Operating with General Escobar, last week, was the fierce and redoubtable General Francisco Urbalejo, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian. Carnage of a particularly gory sort was predicted when the half-savage but well-armed Yaqui Insurrectos and General Escobar's rebel troops clashed with the Federalistas near Torreon...
...Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...
Money is a sine qua non of the research which birth-control leaders have under way. Last fortnight Mrs. Sanger gathered 500 well-to-do and persuaded New Yorkers in a ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. To stimulate donations to support
...only U. S.-bred winner (U. S.-owned horses have won it twice: Stephen Sanford's Sergeant Murphy, 1923; A. Charles Schwartz's Jack Horner, 1926). Rubio was shipped to England as a racer, failed to do well, was sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained...